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TIL that David Koresh, leader of the Branch Davidian ranch cult in Waco was a songwriter and musician that attempted to make it big in Hollywood. (Fact #5 on list in link)

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XgoR TIL that the star Betelgeuse, in the constellation Orion, is 500 times bigger and emits 16,000 times more visible light than the Sun. If it were in our solar system, its surface would extend to the orbit of Jupiter.
QY1M TIL that peeling scotch tape in vacum generates enough x-ray to image a human finger
oB1dL TIL A man shaved his beard on Tinder to see how his results would change. The beard profile received more matches (64 out of 94) and generally received twice as many matches from white women as the non-beard profile. More Asian women preferred non beard
j6ZkQ TIL At its pinnacle in the late 1980s, waterbeds made up 22 percent of the mattress market in the US
noBd TIL that Seattle Resident Henry Liebman Has Caught 200-Year-Old Rockfish off Coast in Sitka, Alaska