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TIL that there's an instrument you can use to measure the 'blueness' of the sky

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WMRd TIL student loan debt doesn’t go away if you declare bankruptcy
78r1X TIL of Barthélemy de Chasseneuz, a French lawyer who made his reputation as a criminal lawyer by successfully defending a group of rats that were put on trial for destroying barley crops in 1508.
8eAlV TIL: Skippy peanut butter jars were redesigned to include a dimple at the bottom of the jar. This made it hard for people to see they were paying the same for a reduced amount of peanut butter.
VD1Z TIL England’s famous Battle of Hastings in 1066 was not actually fought at Hastings. It occurred in an area called Battle, about 7 miles away. Because ‘Battle of Battle’ was such an awful title, they instead named it after the nearest town.
jVEM TIL, 30 years ago on this day Sept. 26th 1983. A Russian Colonel named Stanislav Petrov, now known as The man who saved the world, averted WW3. A Soviet early warning satellite detected nuclear launches from the US. Petrov trusted his instincts that the computers were malfunctioning and did nothing.