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TIL Chris Rock’s marriage fell apart in large part to his porn addiction, “I became sexually autistic”.

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9wWlX TIL about Planet 9, a hypothetical ninth planet in the outer region of our solar system. The planet has not been directly observed, but the gravitational effects of the planet could explain the unique orbits of bodies beyond Neptune, which orbit the sun as a single cluster.
rNV7o TIL that Tic-Tacs were launched under the name “Refreshing Mints.” They changed the name a year later based on the distinctive clicking noise made by opening and closing the package.
OoBmX NASA put 12 astronauts on the moon between 1969 and 1972. With the death Friday of Apollo 16’s John Young, only five of those astronauts are still alive, and they range in age from 82 to 87. No human being has been beyond low Earth orbit since the end of the Apollo program.
V9Pk TIL there are several ancient languages from our own species that modern linguists haven’t been able to decipher
nAb TIL The Japanese yakuza provided disaster relief for both the Kobe and Tohoku earthquakes.