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TIL that sidereal time is different from solar time, so in a typical "year" (ignoring leap year complications) where sun rises 365 times, the Earth has actually done 366 rotations around its axis

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kOPXg TIL in 1937, a man tried to find seats for himself and his wife on the Hindenburg, but there were none available next to each other. They took a plane home instead. Two years later, the man, Martin Goodman, went on to create Marvel Comics.
0b8N TIL that 3 Musketeers bars original came three in a pack. One vanilla, one strawberry and one chocolate. Hence the name 3 Musketeers.
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8GnX TIL that Phyllis Smith (Phyllis from The Office) was once both an NFL cheerleader and a burlesque dancer.
M7M9V TIL Temmler Werke (company that supplied Nazi meth) was still making Pervitin and selling it to the East German army until 1988.