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TIL Astronomers have found a planet that rains glass sideways

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pAe8 TIL that The biggest porn company in the entire world is MindGeek from in Canada. They own several “tube sites” like Pornhub, YouPorn and Redtube as well as other traditional content providers like Brazzers and Digital Playground.
M7Rp7 TIL Sierra Leone has only had one elected Muslim president since its independence, despite being a country with a majority Muslim population.
Lk6e0 TIL: In 1969 24 journalists came together to write the worst novel they could come up with to make fun of US’s vulgar and declining literary culture. That hoax book became a bestseller the same year.
OoKeL TIL that in 1994 the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 broke apart and struck Jupiter, giving scientists their first ever look at an extraterrestrial collision of Solar System objects. One impact had 600 times more force than the entire world’s nuclear arsenal.
VMvrQ TIL that in 2017, The Dallas Morning News apologized for a spelling error in a review of the original Star Wars movie... written in 1977, exactly 40 years to the date. They misspelled the word "Wookiee" as "Wookie", and apologized "to the seven-foot-tall hairy alien biped community" for the error.