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TIL *NSYNC is spelled with the last letters of the band members’ first names.

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kXk4 TIL that the Tarantula Nebula, a region in the Large Magellanic Cloud over 160,000 light years distant, contains the most luminous known star. The nebula’s luminosity is so great that if it were as close to Earth as the Orion Nebula, the Tarantula Nebula would cast shadows on the ground.
Oo1wL TIL that Iceland has the highest number of authors per head, and one in ten icelandic people will publish a book in their lifetime
LkYo0 TIL An Italian pedagog Roberto Nevilis is considered the real “inventor” of homework. He was the person who invented homework in 1905 and made it a punishment to his students. Since time when was homework invented, this practice has become popular around the world.
ZpV4Q TIL a woodchuck doesn't chuck wood, it chucks dirt. A woodchuck chucks 700 pounds of dirt. What the dirt-to-wood ratio is, I don't know.
1aRn4 TIL that the Statue of Liberty walks over a broken chain and shackle, half-hidden by her robes and difficult to see from the ground. They represent freedom and the end of servitude and oppression.