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TIL planets are round because of gravity. A planet's gravity pulls equally from all sides. Gravity pulls from the center to the edges like the spokes of a bicycle wheel.

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R5val TIL on July 19, 1985, in his sixth professional bout, a young Mike Tyson faced Larry Sims in Poughkeepsie, New York. Out of Tyson's 58 professional fights, this is the only one never captured on video. It is theorized that the scheduled film crew failed to arrive on time, missing the entire match.
wLA6J TIL, a 3,000 year old mummy was found that had a wooden prosthetic big toe.
yQMwJ TIL that in Pakistan, half of all marriages are between first or second cousins.
4XL7R TIL Reagan and Gorbachev Agreed to Pause the Cold War in Case of an Alien Invasion
lojmA TIL that Abe Lincoln and Chuck Darwin were born on the exact same date. I wonder if there are any other dates in which multiple historic figures were born.