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TIL that Grandma Moses was born before the U.S. Civil War began and lived long enough to see the first American in space, Alan Shephard in 1961

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LmLQ TIL a 108-year-old Santa Monica woman said in an interview of her extraordinarily long life, “It doesn’t pay to live too long.” She had long since outlived her husband, and her son had recently died in his 80s.
vP06R TIL John Ratzenberger came up with the Cheer’s character Cliff Clavin at his audition (for another part). On his way out the door he asked the producers if they had a bar ‘know it all’ and proceeded to improv the idea on the spot. They wrote it into the show.
nZN9 TIL That in 1054, Chinese Astronomers witnessed a supernova explosion, which appeared as a bright star that would be visible even in daytime
GxBj TIL that 63% of registered American voters believe in at least one political conspiracy theory
nlar TIL there may exist objects in our Universe that behave just the opposite of a black hole (a white hole). They cannot be entered from the outside, but matter and light can escape. The Big Bang might have been a white hole itself, and big bangs possibly occur at the center of all black holes.