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TIL Danish Pastry Are Not from Denmark But Was Brought There by Austrian Bakers

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Yp0mW TIL the final total solar eclipse will be in 600 million years time, as the moon will be around 30,400km further from the Earth while the sun’s diameter will be around 5% larger.
9Y7lD TIL when Australian javelin thrower Reg Spiers could not afford (financially) to purchase a flight back to Australia from London, he "mailed/posted" himself back to Australia in a wooden box...a journey that took 63 hours and passed through India and Singapore. This happened in 1964.
ZLZY TIL an ex-member of Pink Floyd, in “a real act of mad genius,” pranked the band by writing a seemingly simple song that the band could never learn; each time they rehearsed it, he would arbitrarily change the chords, then sing it back to them to correct them. It was called “Have You Got It Yet?”
QNbG6 TIL that amateur archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann named his son Agamemnon in honour of an Ancient Greek funerary mask he discovered in 1876, which he erroneously claimed belonged to the legendary king of the same name.
neMo TIL Pencils have always used graphite for writing, the danger during the 1950’s and before came from the lead based paint on the pencil