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TIL our sun rotates on it's axis once every ~27 days

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QNk56 TIL Earthquakes leave heat signatures. Friction from large earthquakes can heat the slip zone over 1000 degree Celsius higher than the surrounding rock leaving behind glass-like pseudotachylytes which can be used to estimate the energy of the event.
awEjZ TIL Anthony Burgess sent a preliminary draft of A Clockwork Orange to Rolling Stone in place of an article and Hunter S. Thompson wrote a letter rejecting Burgess' "limey bullshit" and calling him "cheapjack scum."
X0XG8 TIL the smallest hoofed animals are called Java mouse-deer, not much bigger than ordinary rats
W7pg8 TIL that the Hoba meteorite is the largest in the world which estimates to 60 tons is discovered in Namibia
XE0P6 TIL of Richard Turner, a true American badass. One of the best card magicians in the world, he also earned a karate black belt in the toughest karate school in the country, hunted sharks, climbed cliffs without securing and became a trapeze artist. Oh, and he lost his eyesight at the age of 9.