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TIL that Venus rotates so slowly, you can keep the sunset in the same place and watch sunset forever just by walking.

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E1P6d TIL in 2003, after Roy Hunt was brutally mauled by one of his tigers during their show in Vegas, the doctors removed a part of his skull to avoid his death from brain swelling, and placed it in a pocket inside of his abdomen until it was ready to be reattached.
6EKgW TIL The Black Eyed Peas hold the record for the longest uninterrupted time at #1 on the Hot 100, a total of 26 consecutive weeks from April to October 2009, with "Boom Boom Pow" and "I Gotta Feeling.”
9jbB TIL “The Nightman Cometh,” the musical Charlie writes in It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia, was adapted into a live-action performance for two nights at the Troubadour theater in 2009. It starred the original cast and began with title cards reading “7:15, On a Friday, Philadelphia PA.”
PYgmn TIL that on 5th May 1945, 5 days after Hitler's suicide, American and German soldiers fought together against the Nazi SS to free prominent French prisoners of war from Itter Castle. It is believed to be the only battle in the war in which Americans and Germans fought together as allies.
xVn65 TIL that William Alvin "Bill" Moody aka Paul Bearer, best known as being The Undertakers manager, was an actual mortician