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[TIL] The Sun is so loud that if space was filled with air it would be 125db on Earth, 92 Million miles away

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GAZwJ TIL the Michelin guide (where the best restaurants are catalogued) was a marketing tool for the Michelin tire company. (I always thought the name was just coincidence.)
VMOBQ TIL: Dino Bravo, WWE/F main eventer in the 80's, was found murdered after being shot 17 times. It is suspected to be a mafia hit connected to cigarette smuggling.
e0Mj4 TIL When juicing a lime with a press juicer (the kind with a lever) you put the half lime into the cup of the juicer pulp side down/curved side up so that the juicer turns it inside out when you press.
1alN4 TIL "Pull yourself up by your bootstraps" originated as an idiom to describe a ludicrously far-fetched or impossible task
yQ4nM TIL That bleach actually helps propagate mold instead of actually killing it I'll link the two users who brought this to my attention in the comments