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TIL that a comet's tail points away from the sun, and don't indicate the direction it's moving

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WkkK9 One intrepid Popular Science editor eschews antiperspirant for a week to see if Deo candy really works.
LQ56d TIL that Cape Disappointment was so named, by John Meares in 1788, who was searching for the mouth of the Columbia River as charted on Spanish maps. He had found the river but mistakenly thought the mouth was a bay, that the Spanish maps were wrong, and called it Deception Bay.
gM8r9 TIL that Lebron James rejected a $10 million offer from Reebok when he was just 18. When asked why, he said that Nike or Adidas might offer him a bit more. Less than a year later, he accepted a $90 million offer from Nike.
5YoaQ TIL: Canadian author William Stevenson wrote a book about Canadian spy William Stephenson
epk4J TIL about The Many Faces of Jesus, an abandoned film by Jens Jørgen Thorsen, which pornographically depicts Jesus engaged in homosexual and heterosexual sex acts, as well as drunkenness and robbery. Even Queen Elizabeth II made a public comment calling the planned film "obnoxious".