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TIL that the Earth orbits the Sun
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TIL Brett Favre's football-throwing prowess in high school was nearly overlooked by scouts because his father, the high school coach, preferred to win games with a running back-oriented offense
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TIL In 1986, Double Dare filmed the first 65 episodes in just 23 days, sometimes 4 episodes per day.
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TIL that in 1970, the state commission of Mississippi voted to ban Sesame Street because of its multicultural cast.
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TIL about 'powder down': feathers produced by certain birds, including some parrots. It disintegrates into powder which helps lubricate their plumage.
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TIL Einstein's last paper on quantum physics before departing from the field argued that it's an "incomplete" solution to a fundamental problem, with him writing that God "does not play dice." Ironically, the paper was highly influential and paved the way for decades of progress in quantum physics.