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TIL Supermassive Black Holes in the centers of galaxies can be 11 times bigger than Neptune’s entire orbit, and spin at almost the speed of light.

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VPxm TIL Jay Leno has never touched a dime of his ‘Tonight Show’ money
d877d TIL Three Prime Ministers of Canada never sat in Parliament while they were Prime Minister, they are Kim Campbell, John Turner, and Sir Charles Tupper. Both Turner and Tupper were Prime Minister for less than 100 days.
x6a1B TIL string cheese is stringy because, when mozzarella is heated to 140* f, the milk proteins in the cheese realign horizontally, allowing the cheese to be peeled in long strings
R7GXa TIL that light soy sauce is saltier than dark soy sauce. My whole life has been a lie. I thought that dark soy sauce as a more concentrated aged form of light soy sauce.
16ARX TIL that Ancient Romans added lead syrup to wine to improve color, flavor, and to prevent fermentation. The average Roman aristocrat consumed up to 250μg of lead daily. Some Roman texts implicate chronic lead poisoning in the mental deterioration of Nero, Caligula, and other Roman Emperors.