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TIL that the Parker Solar Probe is going 700000 kph so it would take 33 minutes to reach the Moon From Earth.

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xVaxD TIL the Black Plague was so deadly it killed 50% of Europe's population in the 14th century & reduced world population by up to 200 million
b6xp TIL Rob Zombie was a production assistant on PeeWee’s Playhouse…
EjQw TIL that a jockey featured in a Camel cigarettes ad sued the publishing company because the picture of him appeared to show his giant penis above the words “When you feel ‘All In’”_____
pYZPQ TIL Olive Yang, a Chinese housewife turned Narco-warlord. A smuggler since she was 19, she built a private army called "Olive's Boys" and took over an entire Burmese Province in the 1950s. Alongside rogue KMT army units, she helped jumpstart the infamous "Golden Triangle" Drug Trafficking Routes.
aRxo TIL that women who bare their breasts publicly in Liverpool, England, will be exempt from prosecution if they work in a tropical fish store.