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TIL that Jupiter’s gravity will eventually cause Mercury to crash into the Sun or to be ejected from the Solar System.

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0dwbN TIL Anna Jarvis, the creator of Mother’s Day, regretted it as the day grew more commercialized. She died broke from spending so much money on her fight to end the holiday.
X0aBD TIL a man was sentenced to two years in jail after being caught cheating at poker by wearing infrared contact lenses that enabled him to see cards that were premarked with invisible ink. Security noticed his $95K winning streak because he twice folded hands that suggested he knew the dealer's cards.
oBnYW TIL a Hiroshima policeman went to Nagasaki to teach other police officers to duck and cover in the days between the bombings. Not a single officer died in the Nagasaki blast.
oBovo TIL a 12-yr-old Canadian boy was caught after hacking multiple sites in order to trade pirated information to the hacktivist group Anonymous for video games. His lawyer said the boy who had been hacking since age 9 was not politically motivated; he merely saw it as a challenge.
E1lmW TIL that Dynamite and TNT are actually different kinds of explosives, the former one having Nitroglycerin in its compounds. The common misconception of both being the same likely comes from pop culture references.