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TIL the Earth's atmosphere extends well past the moon.

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Z8EJa TIL that circuit breakers are installed to prevent major stock market crashes
9wD4p TIL Marvel and DC only sell 7.6% of comics in the US. The two biggest comic publishers are Viz, who publish Manga and Scholastic, who publish comics for kids like Dog Man and The Babysitters Club.
4X4Zg TIL that the estate of Jimi Hendrix no longer permits use of his music in films involving the abuse of drugs or alcohol. The last film to do so was ‘Withnail and I’ (1987).
Wk7KX TIL In 1651, when king Charles II was forced into exile by Oliver Cromwell, the king was aided in his escape to France by the Pendrill family. After the restoration of the crown in 1660, the king rewarded them, and a yearly pension is still paid to the descendants of the Pendrill family to this day.
R7NL1 TIL that Hubbard, founder of the Church of Scientology, was a paranoid schizophrenic. His wife had him committed to a psychiatric hospital and it was after this time that he wrote out against all psychology and psychiatric practices. This is why the Church of Scientology is adamantly against them