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TIL that there really is a three-star solar system 4 lightyears away from us, exactly as described in the Three Body Problem.

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wKAP TIL that in 1960, Japanese Socialist Party chairman Inejiro Asanuma was assinated during a televised debate. With a Samurai sword.
0wZoM TIL Of a Greek courtesan who managed to avoid a death sentence by showing the judges her boobs and claiming it would be a ‘crime against the gods’ to destroy something so beautiful.
5YX1P TIL that when the former child actor who voiced Charlie Brown was sentenced for stalking his ex-girlfriend and threatening her plastic surgeon, the judge told him "don't be a blockhead"
loydB TIL that a moment is a medieval metric of time and is 90 seconds long
OGkN6 TIL the first movie about the sinking of the Titanic premiered only 31 days after she sank, and was written by an actress who survived the sinking, who also starred in it. She later had a nervous breakdown and never acted again.