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TIL “most stars we see in the night sky have already died” is a popular myth. In fact, nearly all stars we see in the night sky are alive and well

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Y7ZLB TIL that just one white European has ever run a 100m race in under 10 seconds.
OoNnL TIL of Operation Nemesis which aimed to take revenge against the people responsible for the Armenian genocide. Seven assassinations were secretly carried out in a span of two years.
Lk8Xd TIL Wernher Von Braun wasn't just a member of the Nazi Party, he was an SS Sturmbannführer (Major). Thousands of prisoners died excavating his underground rocket factory, Kohnstein, to keep production safe from allied bombing. The US Army later kept these crimes against humanity classified.
xVLVo TIL that Pythagoras cannot have been the first to discover the Pythagorean theorem because it was known and used by the Babylonians over a millennium before he was born. Classical historians dispute whether he himself ever actually made any significant contributions to the field of mathematics.
OoByg TIL that Stalin's daughter caused an international furor when she defected and became a naturalized citizen of the United States.