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TIL “Dark side of the Moon” does not actually mean “dark”. We only see one side of the Moon from Earth and never see the other (tidal locking), but both sides have 2 weeks of sunlight followed by 2 weeks of night. Moon’s Dark/far side looks quite different than the side we see from Earth.

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P1YlG TIL Hannibal had only one eye after he crossed into Italy with his army. The eye was most likely lost due to inflammation.
kYY5 TIL Brazil Prisons offer their prisoners to reduce their sentence for 4 days (up to 48 days/year) for every Book they read and write a report on.
LrD9 TIL of John Snow who first proposed that cholera outbreaks were happening because people drank water contaminated with faeces. His claims were rejected for decades because the were “too disgusting” for the public to contemplate.
9w8bM TIL The US Food & Drug Administration has a limit on the number of mites on cheese. The FDA allows 6 mites per cubic inch of cheese because some people are allergic to eating arachnids
KOwow TIL Ray Combs' final Family Feud he told a player that got 0 points "I've done this show for six years .. this is the first time I had a person that actually got no points and I think it's a damn fine way to go out. Thought I was a loser until you walked up here, and made me feel like a man"