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TIL Galileo observed Neptune with his telescope in 1612, recording it as a star, 234 years before is was formally discovered.

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Akpx TIL of Rodriguez, a failed folk-singer from Detroit. While working hard labor all his life, he unknowingly had become more famous than Elvis & the Beatles in South Africa and only found out 30 years later. Oh, and the documentary about his life is nominated for an Oscar tonight.
D15xD TIL that Jakarta is sinking 25cm (10in) per year, in part due to excessive use of groundwater and lack of piped water. It is expected that the city will be completed submerged in next 30 years.
woGy7 TIL in 1987, a robbery suspect fled and hid in a movie theater. But he was so fascinated by the movie he was watching that he didn't notice the other patrons were evacuated before he was taken into custody. The movie was Robocop
kOQmg TIL a 10-20 kiloton explosion of a gunpowder armory in Beijing in 1628 killed twenty thousand people and hastened the fall of the Ming Dynasty
VMgrD TIL there are mysterious ancient stone cart tracks all over Malta, some of which disappear over cliffs and reappear at the bottom of the ocean.