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TIL that even if a black hole were to replace our sun, Earth and the other planets would orbit the black hole as they orbit the sun now, not get sucked in.

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699YZ TIL in 1912, Theodore Roosevelt gave an eighty-four minute campaign speech with an undressed bullet wound in his chest.
AkEx TIL a gambler named Brian Zembic entered into a wager where he received breast implants, and if he kept them in for a year would win $US 100,000. He won.
wDPW TIL the truth about Kid Rock’s cheap tickets. The 1000 he didn’t sell on ticket master every night he scalped himself via the “ platinum seats” program where the 1000 best seats were sold at “ market value” 100-400 each.( more info in comments)
XEyDR Today I learned the oldest grizzly recorded at Yellowstone was 34 years old. He was tattooed with the number 168 and had no teeth when he was euthanized for general decline
OG59g TIL Albert Ellis, the person who invented CBT who had shyness around women forced himself before he invented CBT to talk to 100 women to get a date therefore utilising the technique he would later invent. He didn’t get a date but his fear of talking to women went away.