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TIL that the moving line that divides the daylit side and the dark night side of a planetary body is called Terminator

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6E9VZ TIL the Lyrebird can mimic the sounds of other animals as well as unnatural sounds, like chainsaws.
R6El TIL Stephen Colbert founded a shell corporation in Delaware named Anonymous Shell Corporation so it could be given large donations to anonymously funnel into his Super PAC, he asked FMR. FEC Chairman Trevor Potter how it was different from money laundering. Potter’s response was “It’s hard to say.”
GGK5 TIL that in 1996, a small town in Utah mistakenly booked the band “Rage Against the Machine” causing a community uproar and inevitably a ban on concerts – Footloose style.
rVR0 TIL: Adobe tried to outlaw photoshop as a verb in their TOS preferring: “The image was enhanced using Adobe® Photoshop® software.” instead of “The image was photoshopped.”
VjxQ TIL Sleeping Beauty herself only has 18 lines of dialogue in the entire movie.