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TIL that cement is to concrete as flour is to cake. Cement is a component of concrete.
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TIL the most distant individual star we've ever seen, Earendel, was detected because of a chance alignment of the Hubble telescopes instruments and a huge galaxy cluster that warped space and acted as a gravitational lens.
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TIL the 1,667ft Taipei 101 Tower in Taiwan has a 728 ton steel ball suspended between the 92nd and 87th floor, which counteracts the sway of the structure and prevents damage during powerful earthquakes and typhoon winds, its largest recorded movement was 39in.
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TIL: Chess prodigy Bobby Fischer invented a chess variation which randomized the starting positions of the home row pieces to reward creativity over memorization.
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TIL that Shirley Henderson, the girl who played Moaning Myrtle (the ghost in the bathroom) was actually 37 years old when she played the character in the Harry Potter series.