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TIL that the sun is not big enough to become a black hole.

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RW11 TIL There is an island in the Bahamas whose inhabitants are 20 pigs that swim off the beaches all day
XE1MX TIL Garlic Knots were invented to prevent waste. In 1973, a Pizzeria in Queens, NY came up with the garlic knot as a way of not wasting leftover pizza dough scraps. They became an instant hit.
ReE4 TIL While studying late, 1905 Brahmin (priest class) students of Madras (South India) used to tie their hair to a nail in the wall to keep themselves from dosing off.
j6rkp TIL reheating rice can cause food poisoning.
X0DY8 TIL Before the invention of radar during World War II, incoming enemy warplanes were detected by listening with the aid of "sound locators" that looked more like musical instruments than tools of war.