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TIL Canada’s First Astronaut is now a Member of Parliament

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rRNl4 TIL The brightest things in the universe are quasars, which can be 429 trillion times brighter than our sun.
8xVP TIL reusable grocery bags need to be used over 100 times before they are better for the environment.
kOW0W TIL Chief Justice Fred Wilson, who presided the Brown v Board of Education trial initially, was holding the opinion that the Plessy v Ferguson verdict should stand. He died in September 1953 and replaced by Earl Warren. Warren made the Racial Segregation in public schools unconstitutional.
W4W9 TIL out of 1,700 sunscreen products sold in the US which were surveyed by a European Environmental Regulatory agency, over half would be banned from shelves in Europe due to harmful chemicals & ineffective protection
Mrx8 TIL: The 1918 “Spanish” flu killed more people in 24 weeks then AIDS has in 24 years, infecting 500m people and killing 10-20% of those infected.