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TIL that during a power blackout in Los Angeles in 1994, people saw the Milky Way and called 911 to report a "strange giant, silvery cloud".

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wDb1 TIL, after hitting her head as a toddler, a woman claimed to have unlocked memories from a past life as a priestess in Ancient Egypt. She then went on to made great contributions to Egyptology, even successfully predicting the locations of paintings in complete darkness.
vP5X7 TIL about the unusual death of Vladimir Likhonos, who died by dipping his chewing gum in explosive powder. He mistook the powder for citric acid, which he dipped his gum in to increase its sourness.
l5JG TIL That Saint Petersburg Fl set the world record for most consecutive days of sunshine with 768, from 1967-1969.
OoB14 TIL Gerald Blanchard, a sophisticated criminal mastermind, was facing a sentence of 164 years but reduced it to 8 by revealing where he kept the Star of Empress Sisi, a priceless ornament worn by Elisabeth of Bavaria which he stole a decade before from Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna, Austria
v1VNR TIL of Grigori Perelman, a Russian mathematician and the only person to have solved a Clay Millennium Prize problem for which he declined the $1 million prize. Grigori Perelman also declined mathematics' most prestigious award, the Fields Medal.