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TIL that the Moon has moonquakes, just like how the Earth has Earthquakes

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W7wV4 [TIL] Sack of Mecca is when the city of Mecca was raided during the Hajj by a claimant to the title Mahdi (Messiah like individual)
D1amv TIL the 'Healthiest hearts in the world' were found in a Bolivian forest people, who get 72% of their energy from carbohydrates, which is the exact opposite to many recent suggestions that carbohydrates are unhealthy.
rRo9x TIL that the original phrase was "Musick has charms to soothe a savage breast" from a 1697 tragedy called The Mourning Bride.
b6mnZ TIL in 2004, a man named Brian Jones purchase the house where much of A Christmas Story was filmed and restored it. Then he opened a gift shop across the street, museum next to it.
78ZeM TIL Pikachurin is a protein discovered in 2008. It was named after the Pokemon Pikachu, and plays a role in the interactions between the photoreceptor ribbon synapse and the bipolar dendrites.