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TIL Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of very long words

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OGJvY TIL that a starfish is just one giant head and no trunk (genetically speaking)
16kPV TIL: upon selling the ‘Lord Of The Rings’ movie rights to United Artists in 1968, J.R.R. Tolkien strictly forbade that Disney would ever become involved. When referring to Disney’s pictures he said“some have given me nausea.”
9jBG TIL that British spies used semen as invisible ink during WWI. The method was invented by Captain Sir Mansfield Cumming.
6EaY TIL the town of “Fucking, Austria” modified their signs in 2005 to be theft resistant
LQnV TIL a star named s2 has the fastest known ballistics orbit; it orbits Sagittarius A at 11,000,000mph (2% of the speed of light) and it is also accelerating.