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TIL that Jupiter is so massive that rather than orbiting the Sun, they both orbit a point in space between them.

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xYJb TIL that Eli Whitney’s cotton gin is short for “cotton engine”.
KB9Q TIL that George Hotz, then 17 years old, was the first to unlock a first generation iPhone and sold the iPhone for a Nissan 350z and 3 locked iPhones.
OGBw7 TIL In 2011 Justin Gaitlin managed to run the 100 metres in 9.45 seconds. This time was accomplished on a Japanese TV show with the aid from a series of fans blowing him forward, which are not allowed for actual record setting times.
wWOW TIL that escape velocity of Deimos, one of Mars’s moons, is 20km/h - meaning you could easily throw something, or even ride a bike off a ramp, out of its gravity
GAVL1 Today I learned that the name Operation Bagration was given by Stalin to honor the name of Pyotr Bagration, who was heavily wounded in the Battle of Borodino. Bagration died after a couple of weeks and he was a Georgian as Stalin.