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TIL about null island, a buoy off the coast of africa that sits on 0 longitude and 0 latitude which causes computer programs to mistaken it as a real island

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rNLld TIL about the gravastar an object hypothesized in a 2006 paper by Pawel O. Mazur and Emil Mottola as an alternative to the black hole theory. It has the usual black hole metric outside of the horizon, but de Sitter metric inside. on the horizon there is a thin shell of matter.
mxoRy TIL Anni-Fryd Lyngstad, one of the lead singers of the band ABBA, was a child of a Nazi soldier during the occupation of Norway as part of Nazi breeding experiments
9YOKp TIL: Robert Forster (Ed from Breaking Bad/BCS) played the captain in Disney's 1979 "The Black Hole".
wop7W TIL that Honey Nut Cheerios haven’t contained nuts since 2006. The nut flavor comes from a blend of peach and apricot pit
nyQB TIL Senator William Spong of Virginia, to prevent his name from being mispronounced as “Sponge”, made his first act as senator introducing a bill called the Long Fong Spong Hong Kong Song Bill, which would protect the songwriters in Hong Kong. This was, of course, cosponsored by Sen. Long and Fong.