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TIL the Corona (area around the Sun) is hotter than the surface of the Sun, seemingly violating the laws of thermodynamics, and scientists don’t know why.

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vP16D TIL that the given (first) name of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto (the Japanese Admiral who devised the attack on Pearl Harbor and much of Japan's success in the first part WWII) means the number "56" - his father's age when Isoroku was born.
5YveQ TIL: many enemies in the Dark Souls games were inspired by the manga Berserk. Upon an interview with Hidetaka Miyazaki, many characters and mobs, like Siegmayer and Artorias, were heavily inspired upon in both art style and fighting style, by their Berserk inspirations, Bazuso and Guts himself.
e0aG6 TIL 'Mama' Cass Elliot of The Mamas & the Papas and The Who's drummer Keith Moon died in the same room, four years apart
e069E TIL that Gene Roddenberry, the creator of Star Trek, rejected religion, and considered himself a humanist. Around age 14 he concluded that religion was nonsense. According to Ronald D. Moore, Roddenberry "felt very strongly that contemporary Earth religions would be gone by the 23rd century."
4k8rN TIL According to studies counting living humans and english speakers around the world, around 15-20% of humanity speaks english either natively or as a second language.