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TIL that the Earth orbits the Sun

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4X9n5 TIL Russia has it's own identical remake of Arnold Schwarzenegger's 'Commando' called 'D-Day'.
8a7PV TIL about Jahangir Khan: A Pakistani squash player who won the World Open 6 times and went undefeated from 1981-1986, winning 555 games in a row which is the longest winning streak by any athlete in top-level professional sports as recorded by Guinness World Records.
kJ957 TIL A 2007 peer-reviewed study, found only 28% of Americans are scientifically literate, and that 70% didn't even have the scientific knowledge to understand the science section of the New York Times
b9wdN TIL Hugh Laurie gave Lin-Manuel Miranda the idea for the song "You'll Be Back" from Hamilton after guest starring on House in 2009. Miranda mentioned to Laurie he was trying to write a breakup letter from King George to the colonies and "without blinking, he improv'd at me, 'Awwww, you'll be back'."
VMkKQ TIL it is a matter of when, not if, the Casdadia subduction zone will destroy the Pacific Northwest with an earthquake followed by a tsunami.