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TIL that it takes 10,000 to 170,000 years for the light, to go from the core of the sun to the surface

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VMdeB TIL about Judge Dread, the first white man who had a reggae hit in Jamaica. Only Bob Marley sold more reggae music in the UK during the 70s. Before he worked as a wrestler "The Masked Executioner", a dept collector and security guy for the Rolling Stones. He died walking off the stage in 1998.
R59V1 TIL about Terry Davis, a schizophrenic engineer who was"told by God" to create an operating system, resulting in TempleOS. And then there was that incident with alien artifacts on his X-ray.
Bevk TIL that if we had a spacecraft that could “simply” accelerate at a constant 1g (the acceleration rate of free-falling objects due to gravity), then the passengers would be able to travel through the entire KNOWN universe, not merely the observable universe, in just one lifetime.
e15D TIL a Woman cut the tattoo of her boyfriend’s name off of her forearm with a scalpel and mailed him the skin after she found out he had cheated on her and lied about moving out of the country to avoid the breakup
kJJWW TIL Lake Superior State University of Michigan has a "Department of Natural Unicorns" and has been issuing Unicorn Questing licenses since 1971. The questing season is everyday except Valentine's Day and times Santa or the Tooth Fairy are around. They discourage the use of "simulated" virgins.