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TIL of Mira, the dying star that has been shooting across solar systems. It has burned for roughly 300,000 years leaving behind materials to help start and create new stars.

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VMXv0 TIL that many early, animated Disney films were made by filming actors in real time and then tracing over their bodies frame by frame. This led to studios repurposing older animations as time went on, and helped develop modern-day roto-scoping and motion-capture technology.
Y11r TIL When Walter Washington, the first mayor of Washington D.C. and first African-American mayor of major US city, sent his proposed budget to congress, Democratic Representative John L. McMillan sent a truckload of watermelons to his office in response.
dQ6r TIL the Queen of England can veto any law she doesn’t like and has real powers to dissolve Parliament, choose a new Prime Minister and even declare war.
RdMw TIL of Jonathan Magbie - 27-year-old quadriplegic, unable to breathe on his own, died while serving a 10 day sentence for pot possession.
yDja TIL In 2013 Scientists wired the brains of two rats together and showed that signals from one rat’s brain can help the second rat solve a problem it would otherwise have no clue how to solve.