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TIL Andromeda is 6x bigger in the sky than the moon, and it's just too dim to see with the naked eye

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xV9y0 TIL about "The Thomas Edison of Finland", Eric Tigerstedt, who was awarded 71 patents between 1912 and 1924, including one in 1917 for a "pocket-size folding telephone". He was tragically killed in a car accident on April 20, 1924, rumoured to have been caused by a competitor.
M70aW TIL in 1780, in an event known as Dark Day, New England was cast into blackness as a result of Ontario wildfires mixed with unfavorable atmospheric conditions. Such was the lack of light, candles were needed in the day to provide illumination. Parts of New Hampshire were covered in ash 6" deep.
r6jy TIL there is a real meteor in the movie JAWS.
OG0nY TIL: On her deathbed in 2005, Hitler's nurse, Erna Fledgal the last survivor of the Fuhrerbunker revealed she found him charming and polite. However, she said Eva Braun had a "colourless" personality and that the death of Hitler's dog affected the staff more than Braun's.
0W5v TIL that Edgar Allan Poe died at age 40 after being found on a Baltimore street delirious “in great distress, and… in need of immediate assistance”. He never regained coherency before his death and to this day, the cause of his death remains a mystery.