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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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pYRBA TIL: During the One World Trade Center construction, workers had the choice of bringing lunches or facing the nearly impossible task of descending to ground in 30 minutes for food. To solve this, a Subway franchise created a full shop in a shipping container, which was lifted to the workers daily.
nDEY TIL a dog in Spain waited for his master outside a hospital for 12 years, unaware that his master had died.
5V1D9 TIL the echo effect used in Duane Eddy’s 1958 instrumental hit “Rebel Rouser” was achieved using a 2,000-gallon water tank the studio had purchased from a junkyard
wLEwY TIL that Willmer “Little Axe” Broadnax, a Gospel quartet tenor popular in the 1930s & 40s, was discovered upon his death in 1992 to be a transgender man—something only he and his brother had known.
50Pr TIL a Swedish company makes jeans in North Korea…which are illegal to wear in North Korea