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TIL moon is moving 4 cm away from earth every year. In 50 billion years, both will be tidelocked in an orbit in which both will show only one face to each other.

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4kgaN TIL that the Japanese have a word "Busshu-suru" which translates as "To do the Bush thing" meaning "to vomit" referring to the time when George H.W. Bush' vomited in Japan's prime minister's lap.
0wdBL TIL Nikita Khrushchev travelled to the US, fell in love with corn and Iowans, and sought to bring it back to the USSR and outproduce the US
7rEw7 TIL a Conservative politician hanged himself while wearing women's underwear. He also had a garbage bag over his head and an orange segment in his mouth.
b6YG9 TIL At the height of the Berliner Luftbrücke, a plane landed in West Berlin every 30 seconds to supply the besieged city with food, coal and other necessities.
dmaQ TIL there are still 5 people living who were born in the 1800s.