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TIL that the asteroid belt is splintered and cannot coalesce into a planet because of the effects of Jupiter's gravity, which disrupts the asteroids and keeps them colliding with each other

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epBlg TIL Warren Buffet bet 1 million dollars in 2008, that his passive investment strategy will win with a big hedge funds over the next 10 years. By 2017, his portfolio went up by 85%, while his opponent lost with only 22% made
KOK8R TIL Royal Bank of Canada used machine learning to weigh the effect of a social media storm over Chipotle’s queso (cheese dip) debut. Shares of Chipotle fell by roughly 15 percent after the company released Q3/2017 earnings that missed analyst estimates
M7460 TIL in the late 60’s when checking into hotels, Paul and Linda McCartney would use the aliases Mr and Mrs. Ramone to avoid Beatlemania and the press. When Douglas Colvin (Dee Dee Ramone) read about this, he called his band “The Ramones”, and it became one of the most legendary punk bands of all time
nWpkb TIL that a zeptosecond is a trillionth of a billionth of a second. It is the smallest unit of time ever measured.
jNX1N TIL that the location of a polling place can influence how people vote. For example, if it's at a school it may lead to people voting for increased funding to education.