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TIL that there is a galaxy being deathray-ed by its own supermassive black hole.

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l7n1B TIL that after writing Pet Sematary, Stephen King hid it away and intended to never publish it, believing it was too disturbing. It was only published because his contract with a former publisher required him to give them one more novel. He considers it the scariest thing he's ever written.
KYKdJ TIL Jingle Bells is actually a thanksgiving song!
nWjWr TIL in 1959 residents of Cortez, Colorado observed a UFO landing which became a local legend. Declassified files from the US military 50 years later revealed the real incident was an emergency landing of a top secret U-2 spy plane
m1rbM TIL That the Roman coins of the that the Roman Empire found can be located and found as far east as in the east of is the China or the Chinese Dynasty as well.
lgAK TIL a French man fell in love with someone he thought was a female Chinese opera singer, and had a decades-long affair that resulted in a child… only to discover that the whole time the singer had actually been (a) male and (b) a spy.