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TIL Senator Mitch McConnell once filibustered his own bill because democrats agreed with it

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Egx1X TIL "1" wasn't considered a number by Ancient Greeks (even Aristotle & Euclid). Numbers were multitudes of units (1 was the unit). "One is the seed of number but not number." This view didn't change til 1701 AD, when 1 was defined as a number in the first math dictionary: "Mathematicks Made Easie"
GAxe1 TIL Jupiter's magnetosphere is the largest object in the solar system. If it glowed in wavelengths visible to the eye, it would appear two to three times the size of the Sun or Moon to viewers on Earth
ZMWG TIL In 2008, Doritos beamed a 30 second advertisement towards a planetary system 42 light years away.
EgZGW TIL Bobby Brown was kidnapped by New York street gang "the Preacher Crew" over a $25,000 drug debt in 1993 and Whitney Houston paid a $400,000 ransom to the gang, who threatened to kill him. The incident was never reported to authorities.
Q5ME TIL that the theft of a Runescape amulet resulted in the conviction of the thieves in the Netherlands.