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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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4kE86 TIL The Ventures, a bunch of young kids in Tacoma, recorded Walk, Don't Run as an instrumental in 1960. A friend covered drums for them. He was offered $25 or 25% of the royalties. It sold millions of copies, helping create other guitar groups, and is in the Grammy Hall of Fame. He took the $25.
e0KmJ TIL that David Bowie declined knighthood and other awards from the Queen because and he explained: 'It’s not what I spent my life working for.”"
4XNeX TIL: 18 Patients with drug-resistant malaria were cured by a not-yet-approved malaria therapy made only from the dried leaves of the Artemisia annua plant. In just five days, all 18 people fully recovered.
6EWL7 TIL Ken McElroy terrorized the town of Skidmore, MO for more than 10 yrs. In 1981 he was shot dead in the presence of over 30 witnesses, but the shooters were never named, and no charges were ever pressed.
gM4oD TIL that only 24.5 grams (0.86 ounce) of the element Francium occur at any time in the entire crust of Earth.