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TIL There Is An Organization That Preserves The Night Sky by Fighting Light Pollution, and Bill Nye is the Newest Ambassador!

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Yx67 TIL Gaslighting is a form of emotional abuse where the abuser manipulates situations repeatedly to trick the victim into distrusting his or her own memory and perceptions.
dV6r TIL the most expensive material on the planet is antimatter worth $62.5 trillion per gram
lZjK TIL of Tibetan Sky Burials, a funeral practice in which a human corpse is placed on a mountaintop to decompose while exposing to the elements or to be eaten by scavenging animals, especially birds of prey.
1anld TIL About the Long Depression, which was a period of major economic downturn directly following the Second Industrial Revolution. It was dubbed the Great Depression until the crash of 1929.
l7lDG TIL of the Erfurt latrine disaster where nobles of the Holy Roman Empire drowned in liquid excrement