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

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OoDg TIL Because of South Park’s Scientology episode, The Church of Scientology hired people to spy on Matt and Trey to find something on them to use for blackmail. The Church became frustrated when their investigation turned up nothing but the fact that they’re pretty normal people.
ae7y TIL: Someone built a working 16-bit computer using nothing but the basic Minecraft building blocks
xBA1 TIL that there IS such a thing as transparent aluminum and it is a viable replacement for bulletproof glass.
Brb4r TIL Bhutan (2010) and Turkmenistan (2016) are the only countries in the world where the production and sale of tobacco products is illegal.
xVygw TIL Charles Babbage lost 2 games of chess to the Mechanical Turk, an automaton with a chess player hidden inside that fooled people that a machine could play chess. He knew it was a hoax but it inspired his work on the Difference Engine and then the Analytical Engine, the world's first computer.