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TIL that certain rare brain tumors can grow teeth
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TIL in 2016, a suicide bomber carrying explosives in his laptop boarded Daallo Airlines, with the intention of destroying the aircraft. Twenty minutes after takeoff, the bomb detonated, resulting in a hole in the plane and the ejection of the bomber from the aircraft. he was the only casualty.
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TIL Rubbing from the Nestorian Stele. Erected in 781, the bilingual Chinese/Syriac text describes the arrival of Christianity from the Eastern Roman Empire in 635, and the early history of Christianity in Tang China
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TIL former trash TV host Jerry Springer is now Judge Jerry Springer, and is indeed an actual civil arbitrator.
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TIL that the purpose of the fairy tale "Beauty and the Beast" was to help young girls accept arranged marriages.
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TIL that there is a current scientific hypothesis that the sun has a companion which is currently about 1-1.5 light years away. It is believed that it has an elliptical orbit which, every 26 million years, sends matter towards the Earth causing mass extinction events. Its nickname, the “Death Star.”