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TIL In 1939 the New York Times predicted that the television would fail because the average American family would not have enough time to sit around watching it.

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b9RV4 TIL of Grigori Perelman, a Russian mathematician who proved the Poincaré conjecture (one of the Millennium Prize problems). He later quit his job, turned down the $1 million prize as well as the Fields Medal, and is thought to have withdrawn from the field of mathematics entirely.
v16aL TIL that Caltech researchers found evidence of a ninth planet which orbits the Sun 20 times farther than Neptune where one full orbit takes between 10,000 to 20,000 years to complete.
69vX8 TIL the Andromeda Galaxy is approaching the Milky Way at around 671,000 miles (about 1 million km) per hour. It will take about 4.5 billion years for it to collide with the Milky Way.
eQLD TIL I learned that simply implementing blind auditions caused the number of females in top orchestras to jump from below 5% to 30%
eOdD TIL that the “X” as an abbreviation for Christ (as in “Xmas”) dates back at least 1,000 years and has nothing to do with secularists