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TIL about WASP-12b, an exoplanet so close to its star that it is being stretched by gravity into an egg shape.

Read more exoplanets.nasa.gov

via reddit.com

M7MV7 TIL that in 2014, during a friendly football game between Malta and Slovakia,the first few seconds of "Numb" by Linkin Park were mistakenly played instead of the Maltese anthem.
j6MXR TIL that English women were banned from playing football on Football Association affiliated fields for almost 50 years due to the belief that the sport threatened their health and morality
QNXLk TIL that Blue Olives exist. How is it that no one considers these when searching for rare blue fruits? These put blueberries to shame in terms of colour.
Br54D TIL: That a Japanese ice cream company created a commercial to publicly apologize about needing to raise the price of their ice cream bars for the first time in 25 years from 60 yen to 70 yen
M7XDV TIL that the length of a second is defined as the duration of 9,192,631,770 cycles of microwave light absorbed or emitted by the hyperfine transition of cesium-133 atoms in their ground state undisturbed by external fields.