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TIL Astronomers have discovered a "zombie" star that went supernova in 1954...then again in 2014. Lead author: "This supernova breaks everything we thought we knew about how they work."

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4pbw TIL that the United Nations has formed a contingency plan in the event that aliens directly contact us
JYZ7j TIL that when Prince didn’t show up to sing on “We Are the World”, Huey Lewis sang his part
GYKdg TIL about Ivo Zdarsky, a man who escaped the Soviet Bloc in a homemade airplane
DQNJY TIL that the death rate for RAF bomber crews during WW2 was nearly 50%
GDj5 TIL in 1999 the legal and historical record of Martin Luther King assassination was changed when his family won a civil suit proving with evidence that the CIA and a restaurant owner were responsible for the death of Mr. King and not James Earl Ray who was actually convicted.