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TIL all the stars we see in the night sky are in our own Milky Way Galaxy

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YpmLx TIL that Mr Rogers' Neighborhood featured an episode with Lou Ferrigno on the set of "The Incredible Hulk" to teach children not to be scared of fictional characters in heavy makeup.
x6bbw TIL in 2016, a suicide bomber carrying explosives in his laptop boarded Daallo Airlines, with the intention of destroying the aircraft. Twenty minutes after takeoff, the bomb detonated, resulting in a hole in the plane and the ejection of the bomber from the aircraft. he was the only casualty.
mw0R TIL when a Virginia school board tried to ban “To Kill a Mockingbird” as immoral, author Harper Lee wrote a letter asking if the board members were literate and donated money to enroll them in the first grade.
p8BGZ TIL That pencils never actually contained lead, people just called it that cause they thought graphite was a type of lead.
w1RJ TIL Creationists’ favourite anti-evolutionist challenge to the existence of transitional fossils used to be the lack of transitional forms in the evolution of the whales; until those forms were found.