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TIL that dragon fruit grow on cacti

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BDMe TIL a catholic priest first proposed the theory of the expansion of the universe and the big bang
GPgJ TIL they detected a particle whizzing about at 0.999 999 999 999 999 999 999 9951 times the speed of light - with energy 20 MILLION times more than the highest energy measured in radiation emitted by an extragalactic object! They call this the “Oh-My-God Particle”.
EQJx TIL A group of High School student from Coronado Ca became the West Costs largest drug smuggling operation in the 70’s and 80’s with the help of their High School Spanish teacher.
mD8R TIL, that when Marvin Gaye broke up with his first wife, she required a percentage of his next album, so he released an LP that was completely unsellable called “Here, my dear”
XXAX TIL While a palindrome reads the same way backwards or forwards (otto, kayak), a semordnilap (itself a semordnilap of “palindromes”) makes a completely different word when spelled backwards.