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TIL one of the earliest depictions of a person wearing sunglasses is of a scientist in 1772. Yellow/amber-tinted spectacles were also a commonly prescribed item for people with syphilis in the 19th & early 20th centuries because sensitivity to light was one of the symptoms of the disease.

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J18Bk TIL the opening crawl (words in space) from the original Star Wars trilogy was achieved by placing physical models of the sentences on a black canvas and slowly panning a camera over them.
Ook1e TIL William Shakespeare purposely had a curse epitaph engraved on his burial tomb to ward off would-be grave robbers, Shakespeare's remains have yet to be disturbed.
P10vG TIL that the creme filling of an Oreo makes up 2/3 of it’s calories
Z8n0Y TIL about Msscribe. Someone who had the Harry Potter Fanfiction community fooled for years. Or, as this video described her, "one of the internet's most impressive liars"
jNkNM TIL of the Montana Dueling Dinosaurs, an incredibly well-preserved fossil of a Tyrannosaurus and a Triceratops locked in combat. Despite the important nature of the fossil, it remains obscure due to a land rights controversy preventing it from being studied, cleaned up and/or put on display.