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TIL Omicron Persei is a real star about 1000 light years away from Earth

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9YgJD TIL Hard pretzels were invented in the late 1600s, when a snoozing apprentice in a Pennsylvania bakery accidentally overbaked his pretzels, creating crunchy, seemingly inedible, knots. His job was spared when the master baker, attempting admonishment, took an angry bite out of one--and loved it.
P10og Today I learned pizza isn't Italian
16Op8 TIL that our spinal chord has consistency of a Banana
4kLjo TIL Porphyrios, the name given to a large whale that harassed and sank ships in the waters near Constantinople in the sixth century, loosely translates to "Purple boy".
jXPX TIL the most powerful commercial radio station ever was WLW (700KHz AM), which during certain times in the 1930s broadcasted 500kW radiated power. At night, it covered half the globe. Neighbors within the vicinity of the transmitter heard the audio in their pots, pans, and mattresses.