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TIL about the gravastar an object hypothesized in a 2006 paper by Pawel O. Mazur and Emil Mottola as an alternative to the black hole theory. It has the usual black hole metric outside of the horizon, but de Sitter metric inside. on the horizon there is a thin shell of matter.

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p876A TIL Treason is not only a federal crime in the USA. Just over half of the states have their own treason laws. Of only 30 individuals who have ever been convicted of treason in the USA, 0 federal convictions ended with execution, while 5 of the 6 successful state convictions ended in execution.
Ypebx TIL Naim Süleymanoğlu (AKA The Pocket Hercules) is the 1st and only weightlifter to have snatched 2.5 times his body weight, and the 2nd of only 7 lifters to date to clean and jerk 3x his body weight. He is the only weightlifter to date to clean and jerk 10 kilos more than 3x his bodyweight.
b6Md9 TIL Abe Vigoda, who played Salvatore Tessio in the Godfather, was not mentioned during the In Memoriam segment at the Oscars after he died.
nWl1b TIL That a prisoner attempted to sue Satan and his Staff. One of several reasons the case was dismissed was that that Satan was a foreign prince. And if sued as a defendant, he would be able to claim sovereign immunity from suit.
x5V5 TIL that the chinese title for “The 6th Sense” was “He’s a Ghost”