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TIL it is entirely possible that our planet has already been detected by the planets of 75 neighbouring stars to contain life, from our earliest radio wave transmissions.

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44jJ TIL that on June 12, 1970 Doc Ellis threw a no-hitter on acid and “despite being unable to feel the ball or see the batter or catcher clearly”
0dJ4R TIL Bob Barker had a cameo in the soap opera The Bold And The Beautiful in which he told a man to help control the pet population by having his pet spayed or neutered, then beat him up and kicked him down a hill after the man called Bob wacko.
6Ep9Z TIL Sunspots are used to observe the sun's rotation and have an average lifespan of 2 weeks. A magnification of 40x-50x in a filtered telescope shows a full-disc view of the Sun, and if sunspots are present, they will appear quite small
d8ZDj TIL over 500 million Indians(out of 1.4 billion) are considered open defecators, which means they defecate outside and not in a toilet
J1Ej TIL that the “root” in Root Beer is from the sassafras tree, the same main ingredient in Ecstasy.