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TIL the Sirius star system is visible with the naked eye in the daytime sky given the right conditions

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8aPOP TIL the 5th of October to the 14th of October of 1582 never happened because the Gregorian Calendar skipped those days to compensate for yearly drift from the Julian calendar
ADrrB TIL toasts with butter factually tend to fall on the buttery side due to a combination of aerodynamics, inertia, and gyroscopic effects.
xNv7 TIL in the Yellow River in China there are so many corpses to be found that it is lucrative to recover them and sell the bodies back to the families of the deceased for 500$
xV4Ak TIL Apparently Easter Island's Heads Have Bodies
78lRb TIL in 1788 the Hapsburg Monarchy lost between 1,000 and 10,000 soldiers in a battle that the Ottomans didn't show up to due to drunken scouts and lack of communication due to many different languages being spoken within the army.