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TIL Mountain Dew was invented as whiskey mix

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R7701 TIL that Kalawao County, Hawaii, is the least-populated county in the United States and occupies the least area of any county
mxEov TIL Gravity moves at the Speed of Light and is not Instantaneous. If the Sun were to disappear, we would continue our elliptical orbit for an additional 8 minutes and 20 seconds, the same time it would take us to stop seeing the light (according to General Relativity).
0dy4v TIL that US Ex-Nazi Rocket Scientist Werner Von Braun wrote a scifi book where the Martian government is ruled by a single leader called "The Elon"
vP9j TIL that Jesse Pinkman was originally planned to be killed off after the first season of Breaking Bad
X0wrj TIL that the Doomsday clock was set to 90 seconds to midnight in 2023 and remains that way today. This is closer than any time during the cold war.