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TIL there are stars in the known universe that are cold enough to be touched by the human hand

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LkJQP TIL we know the exact date the Dalmatian language (one of the Romance languages) went extinct: June 10th, 1898. It is the day the last speaker of the language, Tuone Udaina, died in an explosion.
LQoLm TIL that double spacing after a period is now considered a punctuation error.
pYaep TIL that Sony invented a fake critic named David Manning to put good reviews on bad movies like Hollow Man and The Animal. Even David's so-called interview with Harry Shearer was actually Harry talking to a text-to-speech device.
8elAX TIL that in Germany Vick's VapoRub is sold under the name Wick VapoRub because "Vick's", when pronounced in German, sounds too similar to the vulgar word fick.
n6m9 TIL a 22-year-old Washington man was arrrested on a misdemeanor pot charge and was left to die in his jail cell after guards ignored his food allergies