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TIL A popular Reddit post will earn more viewers than CNN gets in an entire week…including primetime.

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dYwr TIL that the Greeks had proposed heliocentrism 2000 years before Copernicus: Aristarchus arranged the planets in order of distance from the Sun, concluding that it could not be in orbit around the Earth because a body that large could not orbit a body so small.
W7QNA TIL that there were 26 families of passengers on the Mayflower that are known to have left descendants; it is estimated that over 30 million people can trace their ancestry back to those 26 families on the Mayflower.
neO5W TIL Roger Williams founded Rhode Island as a safe havens for values the United States was eventually founded upon.
Me8lK TIL For a gun to work the bullets need to be slightly bigger than the barrel they are fired from
X0pXR TIL George Harrison's Sister Lived in Benton, IL and Promoted Her Brother's Music at Local Radio Stations Before the Beatles Were Known in the U.S.