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TIL about the "friendship paradox" which states that most people have fewer friends than their friends

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yGwl TIL Bill Watterson (creator of Calvin and Hobbes) refused to merchandise his creations on the grounds that it would devalue the characters and their personalities
kldW TIL that the largest known star is 4,982,686,912 times bigger than the sun, and is only 9,500 light-years away.
awJJy TIL much of the work on the Apollo 11 spacecraft was done entirely by hand. For instance, parachutes were manually stitched and folded by only three indispensable, trained professionals who were forbidden from riding in the same car to prevent all three from being injured in the same accident.
p1Mb TIL that evidence suggests Neanderthals used boats before modern humans
LQwO9 TIL First Lady of the Confederacy Varina Davis did not support slavery, supported women's suffrage, and always thought the Confederacy was doomed to lose the war. Her tenure as First Lady was described as, "a disaster," mostly because people noticed her ambivalence to the role.