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til The hypothetical planet Vulcan that was thought to exist in orbit between Mercury and the Sun. It was disproved via the Theory of relativity in 1915.

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QNawE TIL that the references in the song We Didn't Start the Fire by Billy Joel are in chronological order from 1950-1989
d9nE TIL that while filming Steven Spielberg’s Amistad, Anthony Hopkins memorised a seven-page courtroom speech and delivered it all in one go. Spielberg was so overawed he couldn’t bring himself to call him Tony and insisted on addressing him as Sir Anthony throughout the shoot.
R5xA4 TIL the word "Scuba" is an acronym for 'Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus.
oB5QE TIL that J.R.R. Tolkien orginally set out to just create a language. Elfish. He then figured that that language needed a history. That history needed a world etc. Which eventually led to him writing LOTR in said world.
l4yB TIL that every person in the “Serbia Strong” video is a convicted war criminal of the Bosnian Genocide (Individual trials posted in the comments)