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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/sbprasad on 2024-06-23 14:37:12+00:00.

Original Title: TIL of Giordano Bruno, a 16th century Italian philosopher whose extension of Copernicus’ ideas proposed that the stars were suns with their own planets that might support lifeforms. He was executed for heresy by the Church in 1600.