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TIL up to 85% of star systems are made up of two or more stars

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Ejrp TIL of Prader WIlli syndrome which leads to a feeling of constant insatiable hunger 24x7 throughout the patient’s life
16l8P TIL that Keanu Reeves runs a private charitable foundation to fund cancer research and children’s hospitals. In 2009, he told Ladies Home Journal: "I don’t like to attach my name to it, I just let the foundation do what it does."
njJ7 TIL archeologists in Titusville, FL discovered a 7,000 year old cemetery at the bottom of a pond. Some of the skulls contained preserved brain tissue.
4knra TIL of Kevin Budden, who caught a deadly taipan by hand and hitchhiked to town still holding the snake. He lost his grip and was bitten, but bagged the snake and made the driver promise to get it to researchers. Kevin died the next day, but the snake was used to create the first taipan antivenom.
bGO4 TIL that the part of a drinking fountain that sticks up behind the spout is there to keep you from wrapping your lips around the spout.