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TIL in 2022 You can see a supernova with a naked eye.
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TIL 'chip pans' are the single largest cause of fires in the U.K., causing over 12,000 each year. Some cities even offer chip pan 'amnesty' programs where you can trade in your outdated deep-sided chip pan for a deep-fryer
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TIL that 2012 research of carbon particle fulleren C60 resulted in interesting side effect: doubling of rats lifespan to 5+ years
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TIL that the Chinese word for ‘superfluous’, 画蛇添足 literally means to draw legs on a snake.
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TIL Bob Barker had a cameo in the soap opera The Bold And The Beautiful in which he told a man to help control the pet population by having his pet spayed or neutered, then beat him up and kicked him down a hill after the man called Bob wacko.
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TIL that Ma and Pa Kettle, from the book The Egg and I, were actually based on a real family, the Bishops.