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TIL that Saturn has a hexagon on it’s north pole.

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96lG TIL Grand Central Station, due to it’s granite construction, is radioactive enough to fail an inspection if it were a nuclear power station.
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eprWg TIL the world’s largest chimpanzee sanctuary, Chimp Haven in Louisiana, is home to nearly 300 chimps formerly used in biomedical research.
DkND TIL that Charles Darwin sat on his theories about evolution for nearly 20 years, until Alfred Wallace discussed his own theories of evolution with mutual friends who pressed Darwin to publish so as to establish his priority in the concept
78NZP TIL that Richard Harding was hanged in 1805 for forging the tax stamp on the Ace of Spades. At the time, British playing cards were taxed, and this card bore an emblem proving duty paid. Forging it was a capital crime, helping link the Ace of Spades with death.