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TIL half of the Moon is always illuminated by our star.

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d8MyZ TIL Living above the third-floor drastically reduces your chances of surviving a cardiac arrest.
wmAM TIL A decibel is one tenth of a bel, a seldom-used unit named in honor of Alexander Graham Bell.
O5n7 TIL that thanks to the transitive property of TV crossovers, Friends, Cheers, Seinfeld, MASH, and The Dick Van Dyke show all take place on the same universe
jNb9v TIL, aside the Soviet Union, Vietnam was also responsible for the survival and rise of the Chinese Communist Party during Mao’s early days of formation and the Long March. Vietnam even sent one of their Communist party member who became a major general in the PLA.
lro7 TIL a noted fetish artist lived with “Spider-Man” co-creator Steve Ditko, and once said “I think I added the business about the webs coming out of his hands.”