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TIL that unlike Newton’s formulation that states gravity is instantaneous, it actually travels at the speed of light. If the sun were to instantly disappear, we would continue revolve around it for eight minutes.

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p8mAb TIL that if you served, and survived, on the USS ARIZONA during the attack on Pearl Harbor, you can choose to be buried at sea with your crew mates. There are only 4 people left are eligible for this type of burial.
DGpJ TIL During the Battle of Stalingrad, the Russian army would project audio propaganda to demoralize German forces, including a “Death Tango” and a female voice saying “Every 7 seconds, a German soldier dies on the Eastern Front.” followed by a clock’s ticking noise.
GME1 TIL Cuexcomate, near Puebla, Mexico, was thought to be the world’s smallest volcano at just 43ft tall, but was later found to be an empty cone of an extinct geyser. The Pueblans threw bodies of suicide victims into it & believed that if you lived around it, you were ‘under the rule of the devil.’
R7lB8 TIL Hitler saved 1 Jew from the Holocaust: a doctor who treated his mother for cancer
kOWJ7 TIL that the “BASE" in BASE jumping is an acronym that stands for four categories of fixed objects from which one can jump: building, antenna, span, and earth