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TIL that the Earth orbits the Sun

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OnBR TIL Bill Gates was recruited to write the class scheduling software for his high school. He used that power to place himself in classes with more female students.
8er0b TIL that when Sandy Koufax threw his perfect game in 1965, his fourth no-hitter in as many seasons, he struck-out the final six batters in a row
pm6e TIL the Gravity Probe B has the smoothest sphere ever made. If the GP-B gyroscope was enlarged to the size of Earth, the tallest mountain would be only 8 feet high.
LkarV TIL of Lord Timothy Dexter, an illiterate gold digger con man who fell backwards into piles of money despite being a complete idiot who made the worst investments ever that paid off by pure dumb luck.
9wgGQ TIL In 1877, prospector Ed Schieffelin set out from an army post in Arizona heading for the Dragoon Mountains. The soldiers warned him he’d find nothing there but his own tombstone. When Schieffelin struck silver, he named his mine Tombstone.