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TIL That sleeping under a weighted blanket can help reduce insomnia and anxiety

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DQKdD TIL The US National Solar Observatory requires a swimming pool’s worth of ice to be added each night into its tanks so coolant can be distributed through the observatory. The heat is intense enough to rapidly melt metal at the telescope mirror’s focal point
4XZk6 TIL that modern scientific research is seen by scientists and historians as "Big Science", with scientific progress since WWII increasingly relying on large-scale projects with big budgets, big staff, big machines, and big laboratories, usually funded by national governments or groups of governments
Br4vL TIL that US rapper Jay-Z stabbed record producer Lance Riviera in a Berlin nightclub in 1999 and was sentenced to 3 years' probation for second-degree felony assault.
EGP7 TIL Marcus Garvey suffered a non-fatal stroke, and a newspaper incorrectly wrote his obituary, which reported that he died “broke, alone, and unpopular.” After reading this, he suffered another stroke that killed him.
OOa7 TIL a new ant species was discovered in 2012 in Manhattan and is called the ManhattAnt.