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TIL dark matter could warm certain planets in the place of a sun, allowing life to arise on a sunless planet.

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D1JBg TIL Ben from Ben & Jerry's suffers from anosmia, meaning he has almost no sense of smell/taste. This is why so many flavors feature chunks as he would add larger and larger pieces to the ice cream to satisfy his need for texture in food
dO5r TIL That Scottish soldier Gregor MacGregor claimed he was made the leader of a country in Latin America which did not exist and then proceeded to earn himself a fortune by selling land and government bonds of said fictitious country to wealthy British and French investors.
P1kLE TIL: The biggest company to ever exist was East India Company, at its peak it account for half of the world's trade.
R7EYw TIL that Johannes Gutenberg lost his printing press to a money lender because he couldn't pay back the loan to build the press. The money lender went on to publish the first printed book with his name as the printer. Only after an Archbishop sacked the city, Gutenberg was finally recognized.
AmOg TIL Gates McFadden, who played Dr Crusher in Star Trek: The Next Generation, choreographed the ballroom dance scene in the movie Labyrinth