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

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a8rBJ TIL that the guy who wrote “Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer” is now an 87-year old competitive runner, having won multiple national and international competitions in his age group.
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J17jl TIL - The Onion submitted a 23-page Amicus Curiae brief to the US Supreme Court in 2022 for the case Novak v. City of Parma, Ohio, in support of the protection of parody as free-speech. In the text, The Onion openly parodies the Court and says it is "staffed entirely by total Latin dorks".
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