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TIL: There are an estimated 70 sextillion stars in the known universe (70,000,000,000,000,000,000,000)

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8aXw4 TIL the longest home run hit ever made in Fenway park--502 feet-- was done by Ted Williams on June 9, 1946. The place where it landed in the stands, is marked by a red seat.
0dMlN TIL There are only 28 hotels in the world with 3000 or more rooms and 15 of them are in Las Vegas.
rR1BW TIL that in 2006, 75% of Chinese didn't know that sharks were killed to make shark fin soup. But now, 91% of Chinese support a nationwide ban, thanks to activism work by Yao Ming and others.
DojJ TIL of “incest corpse powder”, a powder witches use to “curse” people, made from dried semen produced from intercourse with the corpse of a female relative.
DQQmP TIL that Hormel Foods keeps a file of hatemail they've received from American soldiers who had to eat the notorious food product while at war overseas