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TIL One-third of the world cannot see the Milky Way

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R7AQ1 TIL when someone gets fired in New Zealand, they get to bring an "emotional support person" to the meeting. In 2019, one man brought an "emotional support clown" instead...and he stayed for the whole meeting making balloon animals.
XVl6 TIL there is a Jules Verne novel called “Paris in the Twentieth Century”, which was written in 1863, set in 1960 and first published in 1994.
Me9mW TIL of wars extended by diplomatic irregularity, which are situations wherein a state of war technically exists between belligerent parties despite the absence of actual hostilities.
095 TIL there is a Doctor in Nashville who has developed a way to cure the blind using tissue from an adult donor, and an amniotic membrane transplant with tissue from the amniotic sac.
E1rbd TIL There’s a famous scene in the 1931 film “The Public Enemy” where James Cagney smashes a grapefruit in Mae Clarke’s face. Clark’s ex-husband loved that scene so much he would repeatedly buy tickets and watch it over and over again, getting shushed when his laughter got too loud.