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TIL It would take over 5 and a half days travelling at the speed of light to reach the outer limits of our solar system.

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5wNB TIL The singer-songwriter Alice Cooper pays yearly royalties to the members of the band, Alice Cooper, for the right to use the name commercially as it was originally the copyrighted band name before he adopted it as his own.
eXkD TIL that the second verse of the Friends theme song contains the lyric “Your mother warned you there’d be days like these,” despite the first line of the song being “So no one told you life was gonna be this way”.
78b6Z TIL of the Hitler Teapot - a teapot that sold out at JC Penny stores once people noticed it resembled Hitler
ePDJ TIL in 2005, a student in England made a 1 million pixel webpage and put up the space for sale at $1 per pixel. He did this in order to pay for college and he was successful, selling out in less than 6 months.
nWdmP TIL that sustaining the filibuster in US political history has, at various times, involved: preparing a pee bucket, reading the phone book, reciting recipes, and in one most remarkable case, restraining Robert La Follette from hurling a brass spittoon at Joseph Robinson in 1917.