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TIL That a gas cloud will get too close to the Black Hole in the center of our galaxy next year, and we’ll see it ripped apart.

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ANYQ7 TIL there's an unexplained global effect called "The Hum" only heard by about 2-4% of the world's population. The phenomenon was recorded as early as the 1970s, and its possible causes range from industrial environments, to neurological reasons, to tinnitus, to fish.
4Eda TIL army ants are used as “natural sutures” - their jaws are so powerful, natives staple wounds by forcing ants to bite them and break off the body
6E48J TIL that when the government of Kazakhstan threatened to sue Sacha Baron Cohen for the movie 'Borat', Baron Cohen (in character as Borat) replied: "I'd like to state that I have no connection with Mr. Cohen and fully support my government decision to sue this Jew".
mxZPv TIL there's a giant frieze decorating the US Supreme Court which depicts the "18 Greatest Lawgivers in History," and it includes a depiction of the Prophet Muhammed.
P14lO TIL in 1952, more than 100,000 U.S. Army troops descended on Lampasas, Texas as part of Operation Longhorn, a military exercise that trained soldiers how to retake a town from communist invaders