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TIL a gravitational anomaly called The Great Attractor pulls Milky Way and millions of other galaxies towards itself at a breakneck 22 million kilometers (14 million miles) per hour.

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DQ04J TIL Korean astronauts eat a version of kimchi that has been radiated to kill all of the microorganisms
4D0b TIL in 1973, when asked about a possible end of the US embargo against Cuba, Fidel Castro said “The US will talk to us when they have a black president and the world has a Latin American pope”
x6NXb TIL the survivors of a wrecked whaling ship were so afraid of non-existent cannibals on much closer pacific islands that they chose to sail a considerably larger distance. This resulted in only five of seventeen surviving and, ironically, the survivors resorting to cannibalism.
kJoVe TIL that in 1997 after rowdy eagles fans attacked 49ers fans, the Eagles opened a stadium jail with its own court system.
yJ7e TIL a guy hung dolls from trees on an island in honour of a little girl who died, he eventually covered the whole island in dolls until he committed suicide