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TIL that a teaspoonful of a neutron star weighs six billion tons

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R74bw TIL that the myth that Spinach is good for low Iron (it actually prevents the body from absorbing it) was caused by a decimal point error in the 1930s that declared it had 10x the Iron concentration of other vegetables (it's average at best)
nel1G TIL: A hijacked Ethiopian Airlines plane was headed to Switzerland, but had to be intercepted by French/Italian fighter jets because the Swiss Air force doesn't work on nights and weekends.
XLLQ TIL Rocker singer Ted Nugent pissed and shit on himself for a week and lived in his own excrement in order for him not to be drafted into the Vietnam war.
woJ8 TIL B.B. King toured tirelessly until his seventies, playing 250-300 shows a year. Now, at 87, he plays 100 shows a year
6EjWZ TIL that, although people consider prostitution to be the "oldest profession", human beings have been practicing dentistry since around 7000BCE. This makes the oldest surviving records of dentistry far older than that of prostitution.