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TIL if You Fell into a Black Hole You Would be "Spaghettified"

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mjJy TIL Johnny Depp always travels with his Jack Sparrow costume so he can randomly visit children’s hospitals dressed in character.
OkM6 TIL activist Stetson Kennedy infiltrated the KKK and passed their secret handshakes/codes to the writers of “The Adventures of Superman.” The radio show then ridiculed these practices for 16 episodes and caused Klan recruitment to grind to a halt virtually overnight.
PY4Zw TIL The words Mama and Papa (and minor variations) are used all around the world when referring to parents.
7bkp TIL that 3 years after illegally joining the Marines at the age of 14, Jacklyn Lucas snuck onto a ship bound for Iwo Jima, stormed the beach without a rifle, and threw himself on top of two grenades to protect his team. He survived, and earned the Medal of Honor at the age of 17.
ANGeo TIL that the first female US senator, Rebecca Latimer Felton, was also the last congressperson to ever own slaves.