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TIL Earth has other moons

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Oo0bX TIL After getting fed up with poor driving manners, a retired schoolteacher in Lanzhou City in China began throwing bricks at cars which refused to yield to pedestrians. A few elderly men joined him, with onlookers providing them food and bricks. They damaged 30 cars before police stopped them.
GAAEg TIL: The phrase “burning the candle at both ends” is in reference to Rushlights, cheaper versions of candles made out of grass dipped in animal fat. Burning both ends meant you were wasteful.
W7xd TIL that Don Francisco, the host of Univision’s Sabado Gigante for 50 years, is actually a German Jew. (Happy 50th, Sabado Gigante!)
wo0JY TIL that Elton John never performed the Princess Diana version of Candle in the Wind again after her funeral in 1997, despite receiving numerous requests.
Z8jkR TIL a unanimous 1893 decision of the United States Supreme Court found that federal tariffs on imported vegetables could target tomatoes, although they are botanically a "fruit of the vine." The parlance of common people and customary consumption during the main course motivated the ruling.