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TIL the US government accidentally discovered the first Gamma Ray Bursts using their spy satellites during the Cold War

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O8E7 TIL that the King in front of a snake’s name (as in King Cobra) means that it eats other snakes
KMoa TIL that when you see a halo around the sun or moon it means a storm is coming.
NZlb TIL If you removed all the empty space from the atoms that make up all the humans on the planet, then you could fit all 6 billion of us inside a single apple.
7rZ8L TIL Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) and Richard Wagner (1813-1883) were frenemies, and one of the last nails in the coffin of their friendship was Wagner's allusion that Nietzsche's ill health was the result of "excessive masturbation".
l7lWK TIL that the Ohio River at Cincinnati has been as shallow as ~ 2 feet, in 1881, and has a record crest of 80 feet, in 1937.