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TIL that Earth And Venus Form a Stunning Pentagrammic Pattern in Space

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nZNd TIL that a garbage man won $14.4 million in the lottery, spent it all on massive drug use, gaudy golden jewelry and prostitutes. Now he works Cookie Factory.
M1G0 TIL that Arthur Ganson built a kinetic sculpture of connected gears called “Machine with Concrete.” The 1st gear turns at 200 rpm and the last gear is stuck in concrete. It can still run because each gear set reduces the turning speed, meaning that the last gear only revolves every 2 trillion years.
PopZ TIL Oklahoma (not California, Japan, Chile, etc) Experiences More Earthquakes Than Anywhere Else in the World
69vbl TIL Back in the Middle Ages, indulgences were sold by the Catholic Church to absolve sins or crimes that had been committed or that were to be committed
xVlZ0 TIL that commercial DNA testing companies such as Ancestry.com and 23AndMe can send your dna profile to the police, keep it for up to ten years or can even share them to others.