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TIL "Spaghettification" is a real word for what happens when things gets too close to a black hole.

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MeJmK TIL Dennis Rodman was told he would not be welcomed in North Korea again 'until he cleaned up his act' after he got drunk, vomited and defecated all over a hotel in the country during the country leader's birthday celebrations. He checked into rehab after returning from North Korea to the U.S.
XEwAr TIL about Miles Copeland Jr., a former jazz trumpeter whose work as a CIA officer inspired the names of his sons' music ventures: Miles III started a record label, International Record Syndicate (IRS); Ian, a talent agency, Frontier Booking International (FBI); and Stewart, a drummer, The Police.
xVo8B TIL: There's a Native American lake named Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg. It means "you fish on your side, I fish on my side, and no one fishes in the middle." Located in the town of Webster, Massachusetts, it is known more commonly as Lake Chaubunagungamaug or Webster Lake.
xoyk TIL a Swedish man built a homemade nuclear reactor and had a meltdown on the kitchen stove
QNgd6 TIL that John Marston is real