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TIL: NASA has found that under certain conditions the moon rings like a bell.

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grVn8 TIL the act of dumping green slime on a person on "You Can't Do That On Television" started when they meant to dump food on a kid but it went rotten and turned into green muck and they threw it on him anyway.
M7Ol7 TIL about Pope Joan, a woman who became pope during the Middle ages by disguising herself as a man. The legend was believed to be true until 17th century.
6Er9m TIL there is more sodium in a typical slice of bread than a serving of potato chips.
PA5e TIL the Indian rebellion of 1857 started because the East India Trading Company was asking its soldiers to bite the seal off their ammo cartridges, which were sealed with pork and beef animal fats (against Muslim and Hindu beliefs).
4XpBw TIL that the 2011 earthquake in Japan was so powerful it moved Honshu (the main island of Japan) 2.4m (8 ft) to the east, shifted the Earth on its axis by estimates of between 10 cm and 25 cm, and increased earth's rotational speed by 1.8 µs per day.