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TIL that half of all stars aren’t in a galaxy

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6EDQm TIL a Rocket League streamer set out to host The Longest Game, knowing that match servers usually crash after an hour or so. The match never crashed in the end (Psyonix also denied any involvement in the match), and was manually stopped after 11 hours.
BvoW TIL of the peanut butter tree. A tropical tree that smells like peanut butter and produces fruit that tastes like it as well.
Y7Klx TIL that to decide who would rule the Persian Empire (44% of world population), six nobles decided on a test. They were to gather outside the palace, mounted on their horses at sunrise, and the man whose horse neighed first in recognition of the rising sun would become King of Kings.
X0Dnj TIL that from 1974-1975 Chuckles (the jelly candies) sponsored stuntman Evel Knievel
j64eR TIL Neil Armstrong received hundreds of thousands of cards and letters from all over the world after his historic moon landing. James Hansen selected 400 letters out of 75,000 for publication in a book and donated 55 hours of one-on-one tape-recorded interviews with Armstrong to Purdue’s Archives