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TIL the moon appearing larger on the horizon is known as the Problem of Luna Mendex and is actually an illusion of the eye. The illusion can be broken by cupping your hand into a fist and looking through it at the 'large' horizon moon. It will immediately shrink in size.

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neXmb TIL in 1993 a man damaged a levee on the Mississippi river to delay his wife coming home from work so he could party. The river flooded 14,000 acres and caused $15 billion in damages. He was sentenced to life in prison.
D1rdp TIL Mao Zedong's English interpreter Ji Chaozhu moved to New York in 1939 at age 9, to avoid the war and spent a year at Harvard before returning to China in 1950. He worshipped Mao and remember the Chairman as “serene,” “regal,” and “mentally far away, at peace.”
YDkx TIL that squeezing boobs can help prevent breast cancer, BEST NEWS EVER!
8KjZ TIL North Korea has officially stated that Kim Jong Un mastered driving at the age of 3
m1m6y TIL that actor Red Foxx was only 49 when he starred in Sandford & Son. He wore makeup to look older.