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TIL journalist Dan Rather was fired after reporting that Bush did not finish his time at the Air National Guard using inauthentic documents as evidence

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ADrn4 TIL That a grilled cheese with toppings besides cheese is considered a melt, not a grilled cheese sandwich
Z8apo TIL that Polaris, the 'North Star' was not used by ancients for navigation. It only became the closest naked-eye star to the celestial pole in Medieval times. Before that, the Ursa Minor constellation was used for navigation.
M7Nm0 TIL Plants aren't silent. They make clicking sounds like popcorn inaudible to humans that change under stress
5Y1MD TIL that before 1600 people tended not to eat breakfast.
B5yx TIL that until the 17th century most scientists believed that the speed of light was infinite. It was only in 1676 that Ole Rømer and Giovanni Cassini made the first measurement of the velocity of light (just 27% off the real value) by observing the orbits of the moons of Jupiter.