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TIL that in zero gravity, a candle’s flame is round and blue

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1DAD TIL that Brent and Wayne Gretzky hold the NHL record for most combined points by two brothers; Wayne with 2857 career points and Brent with four.
eXY4 TIL the first cloned pet was cat was named CC, short for Copy Cat
O6Z7 TIL a Chernobyl fireman who claimed they didn’t know that the Chernobyl meltdown flames were radioactive, 20 years later said “Of course we knew! If we’d followed regulations, we would never have gone near the reactor. But it was a moral obligation – our duty. We were like kamikaze.”
WkDjY TIL that you would need the equivalent nutritional value of 190,000 Big Macs every second to provide the U.S. with electricity.
MaYV TIL flour tortillas were invented by a Jewish sect living in Mexico (then a colony of New Spain) who considered corn to be non-kosher.