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TIL that the photons that light up the earth are not 8 min. 20 sec old but thousands of years old trapped inside the Sun and recently freed.

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OjVe TIL | Black Friday Is Plumbers’ Busiest Day of the Year (Brown Friday)
M77d0 TIL that a former Danish fossil fuel company (DONG, now Ørsted) switched to 85 % renewable energy generation in just 8 years. Their investments in wind technology (several tens of billions of euros) are largely responsible for advancements in wind power and why it is so cheap today.
a8xL TIL 11 children have been born in Antarctica, the first in 1978.
dDmNK TIL that Plato discovered 5 platonic regular form shapes. But Frank Chester discovered a sixth that is the same shape of the human heart and it is called a Chestahedron.
4b1a TIL the Guinness World Record for longest note ever recorded on a saxophone, at 45 minutes and 47 seconds, is held by…Kenny G.