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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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LBGp TIL the actor who played Gunther of Friends was hired because he was the only extra who knew how to work an espresso machine.
AE1n TIL Charlie Chaplin was banned from reentering the United States in 1952, primarily due to speculation that he was a communist
RYe4 TIL a Georgian man was frustrated about not being able to sell his house and, after a phone call with his wife about it, decided to drive a truck through his living room. When the police arrived to question him he told them he was hot and that opening a window simply wasn’t enough.
Q7ep TIL “Smarties” (U.S.) were first made after WWI using repurposed gunpowder pellet machines, which gave them their shape and texture.
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