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TIL that NASA has discovered over 3,200 planets, all confirmed with 99 percent certainty.

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d7gj TIL The creator of Cowboy Bebop was told to make a show to sell spaceship toys, with the instructions, “So long as there’s a spaceship in it, you can do whatever you want.”
JYgyQ TIL Mister Rogers saw his weight of 143 lbs as a gift. He said, "The number 143 means 'I love you.' It takes one letter to say 'I' and four letters to say 'love' and three letters to say 'you.' One hundred and forty-three. 'I love you.' Isn't that wonderful?"
N77KE TIL that Shakespeare's wife's name was Anne Hathaway
X0knj TIL Women fart
5YaLn TIL that the first computer game was Nim, released in April 1940 on a computer called the Nimatron, which weighed over a ton. The designer was a nuclear physicist and quantum mechanics pioneer who later participated in the Manhattan Project. 100,000 games were played, with the computer winning ~90%