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TIL that the Sun loses around 4 million tons of mass per second due to fusion

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0vxM TIL The keys to the holiest site in Christianity are held by a Muslim family that opens the church every morning. Meant to keep the peace between the denominations this arrangement has been in place since 1187 ce.
Me17K TIL that when Coca Cola launched Dasani bottled water in the UK they lazily used the same campaign they’d used in the USA, and soon found out that BOTTLED SPUNK doesn’t mean the same thing in the UK that it does in America.
m1YDP TIL that spaghettification is when a star gets sucked into a black hole. The gravitational pull can shred the star into thin streams of material like spaghetti.
relo TIL that Sylvester Stallone’s signature slurred speech and snarling look is caused by partial facial paralysis due to a nerve severed by accident at birth
dpeE TIL that Roald Dahl, author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, based the book on his personal experience working for a chocolate factory in his youth, with giant elaborate machines and secretive practices as a result of spies and espionage attempts between competing factories.