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TIL The Earth spins at a speed of 1000 Miles per Hour!

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dlYK TIL George Lucas offered his game developers the choice between naming a villain “Darth Icky” and “Darth Insanius”, and was completely serious
VMB1B TIL that, after the release of 'The Hunger Games' and 'Brave' in 2012, women's participation in archery rose by 105%
E1bAp TIL That face blindness is a thing and it sounds like it would be hell to live with. Basically people with it can't use faces to tell people apart, so they have to use other characteristics to tell who is who.
9Y7BD TIL that in 1995, scientists pointed the Hubble Space Telescope on the emptiest part of the sky they could find and left it for 10 days, letting light accumulate until incredibly faint objects could be detected. It resulted in an image of about 3000 galaxies. This is the Hubble Deep Field.
oBxjr TIL that in ancient Egypt, servants were smeared with honey to attract flies away from the pharaoh.