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TIL the "jellyfish effect" (or "space jellyfish") is when a rocket's high-altitude exhaust plume is illuminated by sunlight before dawn or after dusk

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ADPEo TIL the political "Left" and "Right" picked those sides in 1789, when French revolutionaries in the National Assembly decided which side of the room they would sit on. "So as to avoid the shouts, oaths, and indecencies that enjoyed free rein in the opposing camp." -Baron de Gauville
69G0J TIL Hitler claimed he didn’t have any problem with Jews until later in life when he visited Vienna (though his childhood friends dispute this)
yXRp TIL that tapes revealed that Enron shut down a power station in California and created an artificial power shortage, deliberately aggravating the 2001 California Energy Crisis, so they could raise prices and cost residents billions in surcharges.
xE0 TIL that if the Batcave was real it would be worth $32,100,000
eOV6 TIL: one of Iran’s most revered martyrs was American. To this day, Iranians put flowers on his grave.