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TIL when the Northridge Earthquake caused a massive power outage in L.A. in 1994, panicked residents called 911 to express alarm about a strange ethereal light overhead; they were seeing the Milky Way Galaxy for the first time.

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kO1A5 TIL that Australians give tourists ridiculous advice about avoiding attacks from the drop bear (which is actually a hoax depicted as a predatorial, aggressive version of the koala) to confuse or scare them.
5YEQP TIL about the Great fire of Meireki that burned down 60-70% of Edo(now Tokyo) and killed 100,000 residents in 1657
0wwYM TIL that the Australian coat of arms uses the kangaroo and emu, the 2 native animals that physically can’t move backwards
j66Pa TIL that a species of beetle endemic to Slovenia is being poached by Nazi items collectors because of its name: Anophthalmus hitleri. It was chosen in honor of Adolph Hitler, in 1933, by a German collector, Oskar Scheibel.
OG8JL TIL the Appalachian Mountains are amongst the oldest mountains on Earth. So old, in fact, that they predate life and so they have no fossils.