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TIL The Solar System is surrounded by colossal spherical shell of trillions of icy objects called the Oort Cloud

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8aNvL TIL that Eunice Shriver Kennedy, JFKs older sister, founded an athletics camp in 1962 for children with intellectual disabilities. The camp would go on to evolve into the Special Olympics.
GYod4 TIL that in 1980, The Beatles had planned a reunion concert for a TV documentary on the band, titled The Long and Winding Road. The planned reunion was scrapped following the murder of John Lennon on December 8th of the same year.
WkDE9 TIL There is a National Park located inside a large traffic circle in the shape of an ellipse in Quezon City, Philippines. Its main feature is a 66-metre tall mausoleum containing the remains of President Quezon and First Lady
yVgWJ TIL that 1,600 people worked for two and a half years to produce 100 million porcelain sunflower seeds (hand painted, fired, etc, in 30 step procedure) for a Ai Weiwei art project.
bBbE TIL Comedian Larry The Cable Guy has a wing named after him at a children’s hospital in Florida, due to the several million dollars he has directly raised and donated to them.