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TIL A galactic "second" is eight earth years. The "big year"—a complete rotation of the Milky Way—takes 250 million of our local years to complete, making a comparable "day" nearly 700 thousand years, an "hour" 25,500 years, and a "minute" 475 years. A galactic "nanosecond" is 1/4 of an earth second

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loE7a TIL of the legend of the French shepherd boy who hid his milk curds and bread in a cave to chase a beautiful girl. Although he lost the girl, a few weeks later he discovered his milk curds had become a tasty cheese with veins of a blue mold. Roquefort cheese is still made from the same mold.
0wNGv TIL that airplane food is heavily seasoned but your sense of taste is dulled when you're on an airplane.
NXLMN TIL there exists a research group dedicated to identifying and classifying plastic bread clips - the Holotypic Occlupanid Research Group (HORG)
awJnZ TIL the original title for the John Wick film was called Scorn, and it was Keanu Reeves who suggested the name of the film change to John Wick, after the title character, who was named after the screenwriter's grandfather.
OoA4R TIL Lil Peep's grandfather, John Womack, was a Rhodes Scholar and earned his bachelor's degree and PhD at Harvard, eventually becoming a Harvard Professor of Latin American History and Economics.