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TIL that if your eyes were as good as the Hubble Space Telescope, you could stand in New York and distinguish two fireflies 1 meter (3 feet) apart in San Francisco.

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R5gA1 TIL in 2011, Jayme Gordon tried to sue Dreamworks after falsely claiming he created Kung Fu Panda. During the trial it was revealed his evidence was fabricated from a 1996 Lion King coloring book. He was sentenced to two years in prison for fraud and perjury.
epPAE TIL according to Riepl's law new, more advanced media types never replace existing media forms and their usage patterns. Rather, a convergence takes place in their field, which leads to a different way and a different area of use for these older forms.
d8yBB TIL of the "Miracle" at Missionary Ridge during the US Civil War, when Union soldiers, after completing an ordered assault, went on seemingly of their own volition to storm up and drive back an "impregnable" entrenched Confederate defense on a high ridge.
mxdWY TIL Animals in the wild travel to 'salt licks' in order to lick essential nutrients from natural deposits. Because of this behaviour, animals are often attracted to roads after winter salting, and can cause collisions or end up as roadkill.
edvL TIL that 1992 James May was sacked from Autocar magazine after it was revealed he had hidden an acrostic message in an end of year issue which read “So you think it’s really good, yeah? You should try making the bloody thing up; it’s a real pain in the arse.”