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TIL The moon is shaped like an egg: it only looks round because the big end points toward Earth

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XENk6 Today I Learned that the worlds biggest collection of Nash Motors automobiles(about 268 of them) rests 450 feet under water in Lake Michigan when the ship carrying them was struck by another and sank.
dDZM7 TIL the Quantel Paintbox is a computer released in 1981 that revolutionized the production of television graphics. The initial list price was a quarter of a million dollars.
wDJ8 TIL British PM Gordon Brown hand-wrote a letter of condolence to a mother whose son had died in Afghanistan where he misspelled the deceased’s surname. The Sun published a vitriolic article criticising his lack of care but misspelled the same name and was forced to publish an apology of its own
LD69 TIL right before President William McKinley was assassinated at a public reception, he had given his trademark good luck charm, a red carnation, to a 12-year old girl in the crowd.
0dkDy TIL that 8 temples of the Roman goddess Minerva (Athena) had been built in Guatemala. Starting with the first one in 1901 under orders of President Manuel Estrada Cabrera, who wanted to create and promote a Cult of Minerva, with its own feast day on his birthday.