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TIL There’s actually no such thing as vegetables.

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a8pWA TIL A man named Charles Osborne had hiccups non-stop for approximately 68 years, from 1922 to 1990. In 1922, he was weighing a hog for slaughter. He fell and busted a blood vessel in his brain resulting in him damaging a small part of the brain that inhibits the hiccup response.
1dX7 TIL There is no center of the universe. The Big Bang wasn’t an explosion in space but rather an explosion of space, with nothing before it. Therefore there is no center. Everything from every point is expanding, but not from a central location.
N7Lk1 TIL the asteroids 2709 Sagan and 4970 Druyan, named after Carl Sagan and his wife Ann Druyan, are in perpetual “wedding ring orbit” around the Sun.
aw9xM TIL NASA once fixed a broken Hubble Telescope by turning it off and on again
voAx TIL Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning, it’s silent with no splashing or screaming and can happen in 20 to 60 secs