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TIL, it takes a photon up to 100,000 years to travel to the surface of the sun but only 8 minutes for it to then reach the earth.

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oKnY TIL during Mike Tyson’s rape trial, he was offered a 6 month probation to plead guilty. His response: “I’d spend the rest of my life in jail, I’m not pleading guilty to something I didn’t do.” The woman who accused him has had one prior history of false rape accusation.
0wPZp TIL the HIV epidemic was ignored as a 'gay disease' in the USA until a handful of straight people with the disease received national attention. One of them, a kid named Ryan White, refused the label of "innocent victim" as he worried it implied that gay HIV patients were somehow "guilty."
GY08j TIL that after the dissolution of Yugoslavia, the country code top-level domain for Montenegro officially changed in 2007 from .yu to .me.
e01pJ TIL that before elevators the piano nobile or noble level (first storey in European terms; second floor in American terms) had the best rooms with large windows and balconies, avoiding the damp and smell of the street. Some newer buildings preserve the tradition.
R7k89 TIL the oldest object in England's Crown Jewels is a spoon.