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TIL of Miyake events, rare bursts of cosmic radiation that create spikes in C14 detectable in tree rings.

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KYVPQ TIL The final episode of the anime Excel Saga was deliberately made to be too violent, obscene, and long to broadcast on Japanese TV. It was never broadcast and was only available on DVD.
oR5P7 TIL the last Blockbuster in Bend, OR is still open, makes 80% of it’s income from merchandise, and has to buy its movies from Walmart and Target because DVD vendors have minimum orders far too large for their store.
nOB9 TIL one member of Congress told a NOAA administrator ‘Dr, I don’t need your weather satellites, I have the Weather Channel,’“
6wrm TIL n 1973, Mao Zedong told Henry Kissinger that China had an excess of females and offered the U.S. 10 million Chinese women.
jQxX TIL that attaching green LED lights to nets used by small-scale fisherman can reduce the number of green sea turtle deaths by 64 percent. Without affecting the number of fish caught.