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TIL: in the Tarantino film, The Hateful Eight, actor Kurt Russel actually smashed a $40,000 antique guitar, rather than the prop.

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AEdn TIL the sun is a near perfect sphere. The difference between its equatorial and polar diameters is only about 10km
xVJWk TIL Gouldian finch young have unusual mouth markings that biologists find intriguing. One study showed the markings might help finch parents judge the health and age of their chicks. Another study revealed the glowing bumps outside of the beak reflect light, serving as a built-in beacon for feeding.
QJlWk TIL even though Benjamin Franklin is credited with many popular inventions, he never patented or copyrighted any of them. He believed that they should be given freely and that claiming ownership would only cause trouble and “sour one’s Temper and disturb one’s Quiet.”
rpM0 TIL Plato, the famous ancient Greek philosopher, believed people have knowledge “from past incarnations” and that learning is a matter of “rediscovering” it.
vBpx TIL That there is a star 50 light-years from earth in the constellation Centaurus (BPM 37093) that is pure crystallized carbon, which means it is a dimond that weighs 10 billion trillion trillion carats. Written out that would be 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 carats.