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TIL that New Orleans is located in Louisiana
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TIL Hubble watched a failed supernova turn into a black hole before its very eyes. These so-called "massive fails" (seriously) are thought to occur when the core of a star is so huge its exploding shell of gas cannot escape, and instead collapses back in on itself.
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During the war at Gallipoli, 6000 bullets per square metre were shot, a shocking statistic that provides some of the perspectives of the brutality of the fighting in this area
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TIL that there are more tigers kept as pets in Texas than there are wild tigers in India
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TIL For each episode of his show Diners, Drive-ins and Dives host Guy Fieri invites a family from the Make-A-Wish Foundation. For 363 episodes, he’s made it a point to ensure the whole family’s is invited, not just the child battling an illness. “We don’t want to single a kid out,” he explained.
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TIL that the first French territory that seaborne Allied forces captured on D-Day were the Îles Saint-Marcouf islands off the Normandy coast. Although they faced no resistance, the US troops suffered 19 casualties, killed and wounded, from mines that the Germans had left.