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TIL 4 year old kids ask up to 400 questions in one day!

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7rEmx TIL that Hyperion is the only moon in the solar system that isn't tidally locked to its orbital parent
9wPQX TIL about the Sprint Missile. Which when shot from its launch tube accelerated at 100g and reached Mach 10 in only 5 seconds. The friction from the air was so intense it generated plasma around itself, with the capability of reaching up to 19 miles in a mere 15 seconds.
neXOB TIL Earl Tupper, Inventor and founder of the Tupperware Company, Sold his ownership interest, bought himself an island in Costa Rica, and gave up his U.S. citizenship to avoid taxes.
Gjw1 TIL that the caterpillars fool the ants by making sounds that mimic the ant queen. Then they take them to their nest and feed them.
oBVW TIL Real estate agents used a business practice called “Blockbusting” in which they would buy a home in a white neighborhood, rent it to a black family, and buy the rest of the neighborhood at a discounted price after urging nervous white families to leave the neighborhood.