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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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6Ebk8 TIL after the Civil War the demand for labor grew, and in the late 19th and early 20th centuries many children were drawn into the labor force. The number of children under the age of 15 who worked in industrial jobs for wages climbed from 1.5 million in 1890 to 2 million in 1910.
lJYA TIL in 2004 a man in Florida was convicted of 1st degree murder for lending his car to a friend.
WkPw8 TIL that a primary source of nutrients for the Amazon is dust blown from the Bodele Depression, a dry lakebed in Africa.
E1Z4W TIL that there is a “cyborg enhancement” called North Sense which is essentially a semi-elaborate piercing that is implanted onto your chest, allowing you to feel when you face north. Almost like adding a new color to your vision, it gives you a strange new sense.
Jmy1 TIL that saturns rings are only ~33 feet thick