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TIL of the Witch of Endor, who in the Hebrew Bible was summoned by King Saul to call the spirit of Samuel for advice after God was silent. Whether the actual ghost of Samuel or a spirit impersonating him, the apparition prophesied doom for Saul and his army, who were later defeated (1 Samuel 28).

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KYyPB TIL that, as a gas giant, Saturn doesn’t have a true surface. The planet is mostly gases and liquids deeper down. While a spacecraft couldn't land on Saturn, it wouldn’t be able to fly through it. The extreme pressures and temperatures would vaporize any spacecraft trying to fly into the planet.
4kVNw TIL when Hall of Fame pitcher Mariano Rivera retired from MLB in 2013, Hard Rock Cafe "retired" Metallica's "Enter Sandman," Rivera's entrance music at Yankee Stadium, from their playlists at all of their locations worldwide, except at their Yankee Stadium location.
jNNMN TIL that those white flowers you can blow are in fact the same plants as those yellow flowers you see everywhere.
m1Vnx TIL Doping took down the Hindenburg. Dope is a type of aircraft paint with the same components as rocket fuel.
VBj8D TIL that "Edmond de Belamy," a portrait generated by AI, sold for $432,500 in 2018. It was created using an algorithm trained on 15,000 portraits from the 14th to 19th centuries, and the "artist" signed it with a mathematical formula.