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aw9e9 TIL Japan bombed Oregon twice during WW2, then invited the pilot to visit the town 20 years later.
4jeg TIL Ben Franklin had a business turning old rag newspapers into pulp & paper. He later got the contract to print US currency & begat the term “rags to riches”
QNKJ6 TIL That research has shown that politicians on the Right are better looking than politicians on the Left in Europe, the United States and Australia
j6jYj TIL A brown dwarf star is 13 to 80 times the size of Jupiter but doesn't have enough mass to fuse hydrogen (they can fuse deuterium and massive ones can fuse lithium). Because of the lack of energy some brown dwarfs put out little to no light and can have a surface temperature as low as -23C (-10F).
oBXwA TIL that the world’s oldest surviving melody is over 3400 years old, and we get to hear what it sounded like