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TIL - The layer of gold on the James Webb Space Telescope is so thin that if you added it up, it would only be about 7-8 wedding bands worth.

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ypxv TIL there is a city named White Settlement in Texas in which voters rejected a name change to West Settlement 2,388 to 219 in 2005. Its mayors name? Ronald A. White
GYE7 TIL there are Chinese government records that show that a man by the name of Li Ching-Yuen, lived for 256 years between the years of 1677 and 1933, buried 23 wives, and had 180 living descendants.
aPyL TIL Kraft Singles is not legally considered food.
Me0OW TIL that in 1657 Otto von Guericke, having pumped the air from two copper hemispheres, creating a vacuum, showed that two teams of horses could not pull apart "nothing at all."
yppp TIL even though 300 was historically inaccurate, most of the one-liners (“We will fight in the shade”, “Tonight we dine in Hell”, “Only spartan women give birth to real men”) are word-for-word accurate quotes.