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TIL Candle in the Wind is about Marilyn Monroe.

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j6kJR TIL: That the movie 'The Terminal' was partially inspired by the true story of Mehran Karimi Nasseri, who lived in Terminal 1 at Charles de Gaulle Airport for 18 years. Nasseri would spend his days writing his journal, listening to the radio, smoking his gold pipe or eating meals at McDonald's.
LQLOZ TIL the shape created by bending a rod is called an "elastica curve"
gM5GD TIL that the furthest detected individual star is 14.4 billion light years from Earth. We can detect it from so far away because gravity from objects between us and the star have warped its light, magnifying it 2000 times and focusing the star's light onto Earth for telescopes to pick up.
QNNrk TIL one of the unifiers of Japan, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, once built an entire castle in secret near a castle he had put under siege. After 80 days, he had the trees covering it cut down, making it seem like a castle had sprung up overnight. His enemies surrendered shortly thereafter.
xx9g TIL in England the street name ‘Gropecunt Lane’ was given to streets where prostitution commonly occurred.