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TIL in 2022, two stars in the constellation Cygnus will collide causing a red nova explosion that will be about as bright in our sky as Polaris, the North Star

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knJ4 TIL The release of Halo 2 was delayed because one of the developers hid a picture of his butt within the game.
7rRVx TIL Walt Disney's daughter, Diane, rarely spoke to the press. She never sat on the board of the company and in the late Eighties she sold the last of her personal stock. Her children told her that their friends didn’t know that Walt Disney was a man: they only knew his name as a brand
XEGRD TIL that the serrated-edge knife on the multi-tool does wonders to cut through boxes and cardboard. I always used the straight-edge knife and didn't know I was doing it wrong all this time.
ADANg TIL that in 1483 sir Henry Wyatt, an English knight, was imprisoned and left with no food. He would have starved to death, if it had not been for a cat he made friends with. That cat brought him pigeons to eat every day, and so he survived for two years before he was freed by his companions in 1485.
VvBm TIL: Killer Whales, aka Orcas, are actually not whales–they’re the largest member of the Dolphin family.