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TIL a newspaper in Nuremberg in 1561 described an April 14 one-hour-long dawn battle between red and black balls and rods and crosses in the sky.

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Mev8m TIL notorious killer, Richard Kulinski, once put a body into a barrel of cement and left it in front of a diner. He regularly visited the diner waiting for the body to be discovered until one day the barrel went missing. The diner's patrons never discussed it and the body was never recovered.
WkXDA TIL there's a lofi ,dupstep and trap remix of the bgm of sayori's death from Doki Doki Literature Club
J1LKk TIL that prior to the 25th Amendment, there was no mechanism in the United States Constitution for filling vice presidential vacancies. The US has been without a vice president on 16 occasions for a cumulative 37 years.
QlJd TIL that liquid oxygen is magnetic, and it can be moved around and even picked up with a powerful magnet.
Ood5R TIL until his death in 2020, Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek displayed a C$49,000 bounced check on the wall of his house for his hosting duties on the 1981-82 Canadian-produced game show Pitfall, as a reminder of how his fellow Canadians did him dirty