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TIL That If You Scaled The Solar System Down To 1 Millimeter, The Nearest Other Star Would Be About 23 Feet Away

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GYpl1 TIL: Inspired by a Renaissance writer who said "a well-rounded man should be an artist, a warrior and philosopher" JASON EVERMAN, original bassist for Nirvana, joined the US military, the Special Forces, studied under monks in Tibet and earned a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy from Columbia.
9Q0Q TIL that Philips and Sony designed their first audio CDs to hold up to 74 minutes to ensure they could hold a complete recording of Beethoven’s 9th Symphony.
loGx1 TIL that in the late 1860's, the Phylloxera (insect) destroyed almost all of the French vineyards and that Americans saved it by exporting some vines to be grafted, resulting in a pest-resistant vine, saving the French from a catastrophic loss.
mxe0y TIL of John Nash ( Portrayed by Russell Crowe in movie 'A Beautiful Mind') rejection of a long standing 2 century Economic Theory by Adam Smith. It lead him to win the Nobel Prize in 1994 for his own Game Theory. He got the idea with his friends in a bar with 4 average brunette & 1 pretty blonde.
8wW4 TIL when you are in Sweden you have the year-round right to walk, cycle, ride, ski and camp on any land, with few exceptions, due to The Right of Public Access, or ‘Allemansrätt’.