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TIL On a planet with ten times the mass of the earth, to reach escape velocity it would be easier to destroy the planet than to build a rocket.

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Z805p TIL in 2008 a woman from Ireland died from an allergic reaction to canine semen after having sex with a dog
mxNOM TIL that Stockholm syndrome is not a real syndrome, and cannot be found in any clinical psychology textbooks (DSM-5 etc). The term has achieved its widespread fame almost solely due to media oversimplification of complex psychological phenomena.
4kmxb TIL James Madison was the smallest U.S. president. He stood 5'4" and weighed just over 100 pounds.
BgRyD TIL-Drew Barrymore's Grandmother was a famous silent film actress, nicknamed "The Goddess of the Silent Screen".
4X1QN TIL To compose a picture of a black hole in 2019, 5 petabytes of data were used, which took half a ton of hard drives. Part of this data was physically moved by plane. This allowed a transfer of 14 gigabytes per second, which was faster than if data would be transferred through the internet.