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TIL that Black Widow Pulsar completes rotates 622 times around its axis every second.

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e0LyJ TIL that Leonardo da Vinci received complaints about his procrastinating from one of the priors while painting The Last Supper. He solved the argument by threatening to use that particular prior as the model for Judas in the fresco. The complaints stopped shortly after he made this remark.
8PoZ TIL in California, a black man named Ward Connerly successfully abolished the governmental program “Affirmative Action” which gave preferential treatment to minorities
7pJb TIL Will Wright, designer of SimCity 2000, said that the game does not actually reticulate splines when generating terrain, and he just inserted the phrase because it “sounded cool.”
DaQr TIL: America spends $34mil a year of taxpayer money to broadcast TV and radio to Cuba from Miami, FL. These broadcasts reach less than 1% of Cuba’s 11million residents. Broadcasted signals are jammed regularly by the Cuban government.
KYRR4 TIL painters traditionally wear white because it hides paint splatters, keeps them cooler in the sun, and signals professionalism.