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TIL Pandora's Jar was called Pandora's Box due to translation error and the mistake has stuck!

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EgxBx TIL about the green flash during sunset, a phenomenon that occurs at sunset and sunrise when conditions are favorable, and results when two optical phenomena combine: a mirage and the dispersion of sunlight
0wVYA TIL about 'Gegenschein', a very faint glow in the night sky exactly opposite of the Sun, caused by the backscatter of sunlight by interplanetary dust.
XEbxX TIL: From the 60s until program retirement in 1992, the US military kept ready some cannon-fired nuclear weapons which could fit in any standard 155mm Howitzer. Each M45 AFAP round cost at least $1.25 million. AFAP stood for Artillery Fired Atomic Projectile.
OGE1a TIL of the General Slocum disaster in which a steamboat caught fire and sank in NYC waterways in 1904, killing 1,021 out of the 1,342 people on board.
JLx8 TIL the reason why there are more men with super high IQ than women is the same reason why there are more men with super low IQ than women. This is due to higher genetic variability in males.