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TIL that green smarties are strawberry flavored.

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XEwyr TIL of Jeremiah Horrocks who died 23 years old, was the only person to predict the transit of Venus in front of the sun in 1639, and one of only two people in the world to witness it, ...the first two ever, and likely the first in 600+ years.
ne6Kr TIL following the attack on Pearl Harbor, Walt Disney Studios was taken over and converted by the U.S. Army into an anti-aircraft base in fears that Japanese bombers would soon reach Los Angeles. It remained the only time a Hollywood studio came under military occupation in history.
NX4o8 TIL A romance novelist who wrote an online essay “How to Murder Your Husband” received life in prison for murdering her husband.
PYKGe TIL Even though a chess grandmaster can perfectly rearrange a midgame chessboard after seeing it for only 3 seconds, they can't do the same when the pieces are placed at random. They rely on a process called "chunking" (pattern recognition) vs common perception that they have photographic memories.
9Y0m6 TIL of the ‘Peggy Martin’ rose, that survived two weeks under 20’ of saltwater after Hurricane Katrina