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TIL Lucille Ball saved Star Trek from being cancelled in 1964.

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e08gJ TIL in Texas schools students pledge allegiance to the Texas flag in addition to the United States flag
4XYxb TIL Your Mitochondria Contain a Rotary Nano Motor (ATP Synthase) that Spins at Around 7800 RPM
j80N TIL: In 1838, Missouri fought a war against Joseph Smith and the Mormons. The Mormons burned an entire county to the ground, and Missouri’s governor ordered the expulsion or genocide of all Mormons.
x7W7 TIL that George Washington was the first head of state to be called “President”, but back then the term was equivalent to “foreman” or “overseer”. The senate objected because they didn’t think he would be taken seriously with “a silly little title like President of the United States of America.”
W7JA9 TIL that virtually all of the ice in the biosphere is known as Ice I. At higher pressures though, there are 19 known different phases of ice.