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TIL that Google made a detailed, interactive map of the galaxy in HTML5, just to see if they could.

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NRxE TIL in the 1930s Benny Goodman, American jazz clarinetist and bandleader, hired prominent black musicians to play and tour with his band. This meant being banned touring in the South for breaking anti segregation laws.
KORJ TIL that the women of Utah gained the right to vote 50 years before the U.S. itself, in 1870. But since Utah women voted in ways favorable to polygamy, the U.S. Congress revoked this right in 1887.
loRP7 TIL that the first message ever sent over the internet was “LO” in 1969. A programmer at UCLA attempted to send each letter of the word “LOGIN” to the Stanford Research institute, but the machine crashed after the first two.
OGKLR TIL that sunburn redness isn’t your skin “cooking”. It’s just your body rushing blood to help clean up UV damage. Your body reacts by widening (dilating) blood vessels to send in immune cells and nutrients, which brings more blood to the area and makes the skin look red and feel hot.
XED8 TIL every Chili’s restaurant has one upside down picture hanging in it, and it’s a challenge to customers to find it.