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TIL the architectural design of Chicago is in part based off the beliefs of the religious visionary Emmanuel Swedenborg.

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x6p5o TIL Ghost moons — if they really exist — are swirling clouds of dust that share Earth’s orbit, staying ahead of or behind Earth as it goes around the Sun. Officially called “Kordylewski clouds,” ghost moons were first reported in the 1960s and were only tentatively confirmed in 2018.
X0ME8 TIL there are approximately 0.41 concussions per game of NFL American football.
N6L1 TIL bleach will begin to degrade into salt water after about 12 months, even if kept in the original container
6EBL8 TIL Pope Urban VII was the shortest serving Pope in history; living only 12 days after his election. In his short reign, he instituted the world’s first known smoking ban, threatening to excommunicate anyone who "took tobacco in the porchway of or inside a church”. He died of Malaria.
VMYy4 TIL Nayirah testimony in which a girl claimed to have seen babies taken out of incubators by Iraqi invaders was a propaganda stunt made to recieve public support for USA’s participation in the Gulf War.