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TIL about Robert Evans, a church minister and an amateur astronomer who holds the record for visual discoveries of supernova. Utilizing nothing more than modest telescopes sited in his own backyard and an astonishing visual memory for star fields and galactic features, Evans has discovered 39 supern

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l7XOA TIL It is possible to see two sections of sunspots through a magnification of 50x through a filtered telescope at the Sun. There is a darker, cooler central portion with a surrounding lighter ring and 150x shows tiny grains called granules
wLkmP TIL of Little Merrit, an 8 year old boy who died in 1865. A few days before he died, he told his dad he was afraid to be buried in a dark tomb. His parents honored his wish and put a window in his tomb.
r9D0 TIL You can’t file for Bankruptcy in Dubai. In turn, people abandon their exotic sports cars in the airport parking lot while fleeing. Ferrari, Porche, Land Rover, and Mercedes.
VBMeB TIL that in 2019, approximately 8 percent of all Mexican nationals resided in the United States
LXm0 TIL that a recent survey showed that 29% of Americans thought cloud computing had something to do with an actual cloud, the sky, or something relating to the weather. 51% believed that bad weather would interfere with it.