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

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d8eXE TIL that Charles Darwin was an avid beetle collector. One day he found 2 rare beetles and seized one in each hand. He then saw a third one, and thus put one of the beetles he already had into his mouth. It ejected some acid and burnt his tongue, forcing him to spit it out. He lost 2 of the beetles.
dVWZ TIL Samuel L Jackson first used the word ‘Motherfucker’ because it helped overcome a lifelong stuttering problem.
wORJ TIL that when Sebastian Shaw, the face of Darth Vader, showed up on the set of Return of the Jedi, Ian McDiarmid (aka Emperor Palpatine), who was an old friend, asked him what he was doing there. His response: “I don’t know, dear boy, I think it’s something to do with science-fiction.”
w4BM TIL of The Great Migration, or the relocation of more than 6 million African Americans from the rural South to the cities of the North, Midwest and West from 1916 to 1970.
Ooo1Y Short answer: At least one in 50 scientists is doing something fishy