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TIL in 2022 You can see a supernova with a naked eye.

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JGG8 TIL of “Bitchin’ Betty”, a voice system in military aircraft that warns pilots by literally shouting at them seconds before they need to turn so they don’t crash
p8kDe TIL People of Iceland supposedly were reluctant to embrace Christianity for some time largely over the issue of giving up horse meat after Pope Gregory III banned horse meat consumption in 732 AD, as it was a major part of many pagan rites and sacrifice in Northern Europe.
6VbZ TIL mandatory helmets in cars would have a greater benefit than mandatory helmets for bicyclists
NxV6 TIL that in 2001, British author Giles Foden (Last King of Scotland) compared Eminem to Robert Browning, one of the foremost Victorian poets, and remarked that “a brief examination of ‘Stan’ reveals it to have all the depth and texture of the greatest examples of English verse.”
0dZv5 TIL that Vernors, the oldest ginger soda in the U.S., is aged in wooden barrels for 3 years and is considered medicine by many Michigan natives.