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TIL the loudest events in the universe are starquakes. The largest ever recorded was in 2004, the star Magnatar SGR 1806-20 adjusted itself with the force equal to 22.7 on the Richter scale. It happened 50,000 ly away from Earth, but if it was 10 ly away, it would have caused mass extinction.

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0wERR TIL that more than 100 tons of space dust falls to Earth every single day. They are tiny (50 µm to 2 mm) meteoroids that survived entry through the Earth's atmosphere. Some land on our rooftops as well and can be captured using a strong magnet placed in the rain gutter.
e4PE TIL Ronald Reagan was so against expanding Social Security for the elderly, he recorded a record album about it.
BLle TIL that Volvo has integrated a child booster seat into some of its vehicles for 25 years, negating the need to buy and install (and constantly have a seat taken up by) a third-party booster seat.
b9nQp TIL "In God We Trust" first appeared on US money in 1864 as a political ploy by the North to tell the South that God was on their side during the Civil War.
e0DZk TIL the punctuation mark "?!" Is called an Interrobang.