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TIL that there is enough space between the moon and the Earth that all of the other planets in our solar system could fit between them.

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6kmZ TIL of James “Shanghai” Kelly, who in the 1800s kidnapped men and forced them to work on ships. One year on his birthday he announced he was hosting a free “booze cruise” to celebrate, served opium-laced whiskey to the attendees, then offloaded them onto waiting ships and got 100 men in one night
rNdL0 TIL: The largest group of remaining Aramaic speakers (the language spoken by Jesus) are in Turlock, California
yVAGp TIL That, in 1994, a man in Oklahoma was sentenced to 2,200 years in jail. He appealed for a pretrial and was given an additional 9,000 years upon his re-conviction.
5Y18P TIL that some luxury perfumes contain a rare and extremely valuable type of sperm whale poop called ambergris, which fixes their smell and allows it to last longer.
jN6Ba TIL that there is such thing as "the fear of running out of toilet paper" called acartohygieiophobia