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TIL Earth’s moon is the closest moon to the sun

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M7Vma TIL that in 1912 Chicago Cubs manager/first baseman Frank Chance had multiple surgeries on his brain to remove blood clots from being hit in the head by pitches. He went back to playing (for the Yankees) the next year.
oR4vE TIL that the USDA cold storage is a public report, and the US currently has almost a billion pounds of frozen french fries
5VlMP TIL the brightest star in the nighttime sky, Sirius, was important to both Egyptians and Polynesians, serving as a predictor of the Nile’s upcoming flood season and a key point for navigating the South Pacific islands
bbxE TIL Han Solo used to be an Imperial officer. However, he was dismissed by the Empire for refusing an order to kill a Wookiee named Chewbacca and became a smuggler. To repay this debt, Chewbacca protected Han for the rest of his life.
Wkak8 TIL that the Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) sect of Judaism and the Quaker sect of Christianity are both named after the exact same word (Isaiah 66:2): "Yet to such a one I look: To the poor and brokenhearted, who 'quakes' (חָרֵד in the original Hebrew, pronounced 'hared') before my word"