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TIL Our sun isn't yellow, orange, or red. It's white.

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NXGAe TIL the futuristic headquarters of Oakley has a functioning tank and torpedo
0wm11 TIL an 11-yr-old girl in Zimbabwe rescued her 9-yr-old friend from a crocodile. Rebecca Munkombwe saw her friend being pulled under when swimming in a stream; she swam over, jumped on top of the croc & poked its eyes till it released its grip on her friend's leg. The 9-yr-old got only mild injuries.
69bQl TIL there has never been a confirmed case of someone born with congenital blindness developing schizophrenia
QJxpE TIL that Georgian troops deliberately torched Abkhazian Research Institute of History to remove any evidence that Abkhazians' lived in their historical homeland
X6pX TIL Neil deGrasse Tyson met his current wife during a physics course while studying at the University of Texas. They later married in 1988 and named their first child, Miranda, after the smallest of Uranus’ five major moons.