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TIL James Joyce wrote very... passionate love letters to his wife Nora

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1aeD7 TIL A cow is not a cow until it has had at least one calf. Until then it is called a heifer.
XEOZ6 TIL the sun loses about 6 million tons of mass every second due to nuclear fusion and the solar wind. Despite losing that much material, it has only lost about 0.05% of it's original mass over the past 4.5 billion years.
yQ78a TIL, authors will write themselves into their own stories for various purposes. Stephen King wrote himself into the Dark Tower series after a near-fatal accident. (Stephen King in the book also suffers the same accident)
eean TIL: The GPS coordinates in the last season of Breaking Bad are actually the coordinates for Albuquerque Studios where Breaking Bad was filmed.
mNdy TIL Martian sunsets are blue