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TIL: That Adult Swim isn’t part of Cartoon Network, but two separate networks that share the channel space.

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m6ox TIL that India’s richest man lives in a 27-story 400,000 sq ft tower with 4 family members and 600 staff. The 550ft tall building contains a 168-car garage spanning 6 floors, 9 elevators, 4 stories of hanging gardens, a 50-seat theater, an artificial snow room, and 3 helipads, valued at $2bn USD.
9YQL6 TIL In 1993 then 38-year-old Jerry Seinfeld dated Shoshanna Lonstein—then 17 and a senior at the private Nightingale-Bamford School in Manhattan.
R5ld7 TIL in 2005, a sheep jumped off a cliff in Turkey and 1500 sheep followed one by one. 450 sheep died and the rest survived by landing on the soft big pile of sheep.
oRkr8 TIL that wasps and hornets, despite being primarily carnivorous are actually important pollinators that are good to have in your garden for reasons other than controlling other pests
X008k TIL David Lunt revolutionized amateur astronomy by introducing the first hydrogen-alpha solar telescopes for consumers in the late 1990s. Through his telescopes, the ruby-red Sun looks alive, with prominences jutting from the limb, and bright flares erupting around sunspots