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TIL that if the universe is finite, then we could travel on a spaceship and after a very long time we would eventually come back to be same place that we started.

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YXRG TIL that some women in Mauritania force-feed their daughters because obesity for women is idealized in the country.
vl5K TIL that when asked why his heroes defeated villains with the last bullet in their guns Gardner answered: “Every time I say ‘Bang’ in a story I get three cents. If you think I’m going to finish a battle while my hero still has fifteen cents worth of unexploded ammunition in his gun, you’re nuts”.
QYne TIL in 2005 Stephen Colbert coined the term “truthiness” with its current meaning: the quality of seeming true but not necessarily being true.
awo5M TIL Professional mourning or paid mourning is an occupation that originates from Egyptian, Chinese, Mediterranean and Near Eastern cultures. It is still a paid profession as of today.
OaNg TIL some Matrix fans believe that Neo’s special powers worked in the “real world” because the real world was another simulation, suggesting an Inception-esque “Matrix within a Matrix” system.