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TIL Jim Carey auditioned for SNL three times but was never cast

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Yddr TIL - There is no evidence that Betsy Ross designed the first America Flag. It is very likely that her descendants made up the story in order to get her into the history books.
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
G8aj TIL that the Aztec Empire was one of the first societies to have mandatory education for all children regardless of gender or rank.
nE5B TIL When the leading emergency asthma medication Albuterol’s patent expired, the patent holding pharmaceutical companies lobbied to have their own inhalers banned based on environmental issues, allowing them to file a new patent, and continue to monopolize the market.
e0Ggg TIL: In the first few years of life, more than 1 million new neural connections form every second.