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TIL Many astronomers claim that color perception and contrast is improved by as much as 40 percent when using binoculars over a telescope. Not only does single-eye viewing of a telescope severely hamper depth perception, it also decreases signal-to-noise ratio

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awVBN TIL Charles Darwin was a member of The Glutton Club at Cambridge which met weekly to eat “birds and beasts, which were before unknown to the human palate”. He also regularly ate some of the animals he discovered in his travels including puma, armadillos, and his famous giant Galapagos tortoises.
DkJY TIL Robert F. Kennedy attended nearly a dozen schools and failed the third grade.
VMGl4 TIL about Ghost Stories, an anime that did so poorly in Japan they gave the American dub free reign to do whatever they wanted and the voice over team went nuts.
m1vv TIL after WWII, a group of Jewish avengers called Nokmim hunted down and executed Nazis. One Gestapo officer was killed with a kerosene injection while at the hospital for surgery.
D1ErP TIL that the barge 'Akademik Lomonosov' in the Russian Far East is the world's first floating nuclear power station. It is also the world's northernmost nuclear power plant.