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TIL in 2020, scientists found "that what was heralded as one of the first exoplanets to ever be discovered ... likely never existed. Instead of a planet...what astronomers likely saw was a large cloud of dust from two icy bodies that had smashed into each other."

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R7eb4 Today I learned about WRLDVW which is a new marketplace where you can buy and sell a limited supply of virtual goods associated with your name or location. For each name and location there are three virtual goods available for sale globally.
W7BnA TIL Ottoman coffee ban (1600s): An Ottoman Sultan outlawed coffee and even executed those who consumed it.
EEO0 TIL Alfred Nobel invented dynamites. And when he was mistakenly declared dead in 1888, newspapers published obituaries that stated that “the merchant of death is dead.” Ashamed to leave such a legacy, he left the money he made from dynamites to celebrate humanity; thus created the Nobel Prize.
pYw1b TIL that an in 1551 an unidentified disease known as sweating sickness, killed both the two young heirs to the Duke of Suffolk title within hours.
PYx8J TIL that only 9 of the top 30 100m sprint times weren't run by athletes associated with doping. All 9 were run by Usain Bolt.