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TIL That A Neutron Star Named PSR J1748-2446ad Spins Over 716 Times a Second. The speed at it’s equator is 24% the Speed of light or 70,000KM/s.

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1aY0X TIL of China's Old Summer Palace, a complex of palaces 8x the size of the Vatican. Deemed the pinnacle of Chinese gardens, it also contains exquisite artworks and many historical treasures. In 1860, the British sacked and looted the Palace for 3 days, turning it into its current state of ruination.
8aPa8 TIL in 1861,a woman named Helga de la Brache attained an annual royal pension by convincing the authorities that she was the secret daughter of King Gustav IV of Sweden and Queen Frederica of Baden
rKky TIL when executives first saw “A Charlie Brown Christmas” they said, “‘We’ll play it once and that will be all. Good try.” One of the animators stood up in the back of the room—he had had a couple of drinks—and he said, ‘It’s going to run for a hundred years,’ and then fell down.
ANOvn TIL that the Commonwealth of Massachusetts has a higher human development index than all but four countries in the world.
ndPG TIL an iphone would cost around $2000 if manufactured entirely in the United States