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

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4XWYN TIL that Thailand is in the year 2563. They use Buddhist calendar instead of the gregorian calendar explaining the 543 year difference
Av8o TIL movies prospered without popcorn until the Great Depression, when theater owners scrambled to make up for reduced ticket prices by turning to “audible edibles.” From 1934 to 1940, the nation’s annual popcorn harvest grew from 5 million to 100 million pounds.
R5ob7 TIL Roman culture used pins in foreskins for a variety of reasons, including preserving a man's voice and sexual abstinence
NPm1 TIL that during an olympic gold hockey game involving Canada, so many people viewed it on tv that there were massive fluctuations in water pressure during the time between periods from people using the bathroom simultaneously
Oo9p4 TIL of Joe Ekins, a Sherman Firefly gunner, who had never fired his gun in combat before, destroyed 3 Tiger tanks in 12 minutes.