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TIL the term used by scientists to describe "falling" into a black hole: spaghettification.

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78wAx TIL on 3 December 1894, the author of Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson was talking to his wife and straining to open a bottle of wine when he suddenly exclaimed, "What's that?", then asked his wife, "Does my face look strange?", and collapsed and died a few hours later due to a stroke.
NX7eE TIL that the European Union has a defensive alliance. This clause provides that if an EU country is the victim of armed aggression on its territory, the other EU countries have an obligation to aid and assist it by all the means in their power.
JYWMm TIL that most Turkish citizens never heard before or can’t notice many languages spoken in the country by other ethnic minorities. Ie. some think Greek is Japanese.
BrWwK TIL The Toba Super-eruption was a supervolcanic eruption that occurred 75,000 years ago. It has been suggested this caused a volcanic winter lasting 6-10 years. The genetic bottleneck theory says the world population declined to 1,000-10,000 breeding pairs which we are all descended from.
lr65 [TIL] The Sun is so loud that if space was filled with air it would be 125db on Earth, 92 Million miles away