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TIL that all the writings of the Greek philosopher Leucippus have been lost except for one sentence: “Nothing happens at random, but everything for a reason and by necessity”

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R5BM7 TIL that Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas argued that plants, geographic features, and even air deserve legal standing to sue for their own protection against modern technology and life.
rRdNw TIL it takes the Sun 226 million years to completely orbit around the center of the Milky Way.
D1PgP TIL that in 1875 a swarm of 12.5 trillion locusts covering 198,000 square miles and weighing 27.5 million tons descended upon the Great Plains, devouring all plant life in their path. Farmers that tied to shoo them away had the clothes eaten right off their bodies.
RLK1 TIL in 1998 Sean Penn was taken hostage in a police department holding cell and dragged outside by gunpoint only to learn the whole thing was an elaborate prank by Woody Harrelson
j6BYv TIL A bullet struck the Cleveland Indians team bus in 2004. It hit pitcher Kyle Denney in the calf, but his injury was mitigated by the boots he was wearing as part of his cheerleader outfit for a rookie hazing ritual.