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TIL that a star 3000 light years away is about to reignite in an explosion so massive that it'll shine as bright as the North Star. This nova event won't happen again for another 80 years!

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PYwXJ TIL that Dark Energy is calculated to make up 67% of the known universe, while Dark Matter makes up a further 27%, while what we can actually see and measure, conventional matter, makes up less than 5% of our universe. "Dark Energy" is really a placeholder for "we don't know what this is."
18Vr TIL of The Grandmaster Experiment: Man finds wife based on her committal to creating children with the sole purpose of training them to become geniuses. He succeeds and has 3 daughters - all of which became Chess Grandmasters and the first women to achieve such status.
PYxGG TIL A woman smelled Parkinson's Disease on 7 out of 12 people in a test to prove her ability. Though only 6 of the 12 people had Parkinson's, she actually smelled the disease on one person three months before he was diagnosed.
epB0g TIL in 2004, Dutch Scientists left a 'hamster wheel' in the wild, and all types of forest animals, including frogs and slugs, used it throughout the year
b6BDZ TIL Samoa switch from driving on the right, to driving on the left in 2009