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TIL A pair of low power (2-3x), wide-field binoculars can pull in fainter stars while still showing entire large constellations. Observers describe these binoculars giving them 'super vision', as Constellations outlined by fainter 4th and 5th magnitude stars, like Eridanus , pop into view

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mnjY TIL that a woman (Jeannette Rankin) was elected to Congress four years before women were granted the right to vote.
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