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TIL NASA has confirmed Earth has a space-time vortex. It was measured by 4 near perfect gyroscopes in orbit.

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ADakw TIL TV host Soupy Sales was once suspended for asking his young viewers to send him "little green pieces of paper" taken from their parents' wallets.
JdG8 TIL the exact same piano was used on ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’, 'Hey Jude’, 'Satellite of Love’, 'Life on Mars’, and 'Tiny Dancer’ as well as many more. (From 19:47)
xWrD TIL the government once forced AT&T, DuPont, and other tech giants to release all their patents. This forced them to compete with smaller companies and sparked technological progress. The policy ended in the Reagan administration.
6EvNm TIL over 1000 toads exploded in Hamburg as a result of crows pecking out their livers: terrified toads puffed up to scare away their attackers but with a hole in their bellies & no liver, they swelled up to ~4x their normal size, their lungs burst and the rest of the organs shot straight out of them
Od6L TIL that 35 policemen armed with AK47’s had to rescue a shaved orangutan that was being used as a sex slave in a Borneo brothel in Indonesia.