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TIL It takes thousands of years for sunlight to travel from the Sun’s core to its surface and then only ~8 minutes to reach us.

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wLyBM TIL That in 1990, China's GDP per capita (318 USD) was smaller than that of India (363 USD) & Pakistan (371 USD).
nwZ9 TIL a 400 years old bosnai tree survived the nuclear blast of Heroshima in 1945, later the tree was presented to USA as a gift and still flourishing in National Arboretum (Washington, D.C.) and past of the tree remained hidden till 2001.
0dyvN TIL in 2011 a tiger at a Turkish zoo snuck its front paw through a narrow gap in a door and proceeded to kill the lion that resided in the adjacent cage by severing the lion's jugular vein with a single swipe of its paw.
78GRP TIL the Roman Emperor Fedrick II (1220-1250) kept a Sulphur Crested Cockatoo, a parrot native to Australia and New Guinea.
dDNN8 TIL that British Colonel Valentine Baker was jailed in 1875 for assaulting a woman in a railway carriage. The scandal shocked Victorian society, but he later served Ottoman and Egyptian forces in Sudan—earning praise for his military skill despite his disgrace.