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TIL Polar Bears have black skin.

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e6G6 TIL that Galileo was placed under house arrest by The Holy Office until his death in 1642 for defending his views about the Earth not being the center of the universe. The Vatican formally acknowledged they were wrong and Galileo was right in 1992.
8aMbV TIL The highest point from the Earth's center is not Mount Everest, but Mount Chimborazo in Ecuador, due to the Earth not being a perfect sphere
l7EGV TIL that Alaska Airlines is actually based outside Alaska, more specifically in the city of SeaTac, Washington
n9xW TIL that there`s already a successor for the Blu Ray Disc, that has a capacity of up to 6TB and data transfer rates like a SATA 3 Hard Drive
R5Zv1 TIL that a man went to an auction to buy chairs and ended up buying Stonehenge