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TIL that empty space expands faster than the speed of light.

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rNVGM TIL the specifics about an ancient Greek sex position has been lost to history. In Aristophanes' comedy Lysistrata, women going on a sex strike vow to never "assume the position of the lioness on the cheese grater."
nebW7 TIL the original working title for the 1987 Fox sitcom Married With Children was "Not the Cosbys"
JpLj TIL Stan Lee created Iron Man because he thought no one would like him.
DQE5g TIL in 1963 Marco Ruiz became the only baseball pitcher to both win AND lose the same game. This happened when he started pitching a game that ended up being postponed. He was traded to the opposing team and was the last pitcher when the game resumed at a later date.
oBYar TIL that J.J. Thomson won the Nobel in Physics in 1906 when he showed electrons were particles. His son G. P. Thomson won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1937 for showing that electrons are waves.