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TIL that a comet’s tail doesn’t follow the comet, instead it points away from the sun.

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D1ZZJ TIL that in 2015, a museum in Arkansas paid $7.7 million for a conceptual artwork by the late Felix Gonzalez-Torres. It consists of 50 pounds of candy that museum visitors can eat; the price includes the idea only, as the candy needs to be continually replenished.
e07WE TIL: It's a common response, due to fight-or-flight, for children to hide during house fires. Since they cannot "fight" the danger their natural response is to hide from it.
KYy1w TIL John McTiernan, director of Die Hard, Predator, and The Hunt for Red October, served a year in federal prison for a wiretapping scandal around the awful movie Rollerball and he has not made a movie since 2003
M7Kb TIL the “Cobra Effect” is where a solution for a problem actually makes the problem worse.
AvJg TIL the state vegetable of Oklahoma is watermelon… which is a fruit.