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TIL Stars are so foreign to people living in Los Angeles that when the 1994 earthquake knocked out power they called local officials to question them about the strange thing in the sky, it was the Milky Way.

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pbkA TIL Over 500 years ago, Leonardo da Vinci made an interesting observation about trees. He concluded that the total thickness of a tree’s branches is equal to the total thickness of the tree trunk. Trees across many species obey this rule. Explanations involve hydrological and structural theories.
b6g54 TIL Space Jam almost got a sequel titled “Skate Jam”, starring Tony Hawk, but was cancelled due to the poor performance of the 2003 “Looney Tunes” movie
b9BB0 TIL Gillian Anderson's performance as Dana Scully in The X-Files sparked a phenomenon called the "Scully Effect" where the character's prominence inspired a measurable increase in the amount of women entering the scientific, medical, and law enforcement fields
ADXxd TIL a woman once called a radio show in order to find a (much younger) guy who had ghosted her after their first date/sex. They called him and he revealed on air that he had only slept with her to get revenge on her son who had bullied him in school. He took BJ photos to send to the bully.
p81ne TIL: Prior to the Beijing Olympic games, China used contreversial weather manipulation techniques to ensure that there would be no rain during the opening ceremony. Its cloud-seeding weapons included 6,781 artillery guns and 4,110 rocket launchers.