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TIL once every 10,000 years, a black hole in a galaxy reveals itself by ripping apart a passing star. These tidal disruption events have given astronomers a new way to map the hidden cosmos.

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dDYkB TIL that in the 1980s Alyssa Milano befriended Ryan White(A Boy Ostracized For Having Aids) who was a fan of her works.She went on to appear on The Phil Donahue Show alongside Milano to kiss him on the cheek to show that she could not contract the disease.
kOMvE TIL that Jimmy Carter descended into a reactors core to fix a nuclear meltdown.
R7PD8 TIL in 1740, a mother, annoyed that her son would play immature pranks on people wrote “All his talents lie in things only natural in boys of fifteen years old, and he is about two and fifty; to get people into his garden and wet them, and put things in their beds to make them itch”
a8O0M TIL 1stBank Center in Broomfield, Colorado cost $45 million to construct in 2006, never turned a profit in its 17 years of operation and is set to be torn down in early to mid 2024.
mxROM TIL South Korea grounds all planes and businesses are open later on the day in which students take the test used for admissions to universities