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TIL Andromeda is 6x bigger in the sky than the moon, and it's just too dim to see with the naked eye

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KY6GG TIL about "Sham" surgeries in which a placebo group is told they received a surgery when in fact they only had a small skin incision while sedated. In one study, those in the placebo group reported the same shoulder pain relief as those getting the actual shoulder surgery
d8nQZ TIL in 1958 the USAF planned to nuke the moon.
OGAye TIL Prior to setting the 1964 and 1965 land speed records, Art Arfons bought a jet engine from a F-104 Starfighter from a scrap dealer for $600. He successfully fixed the engine and tested it by tying it to trees in his garden, despite objections from the government and his neighbors
VM0KQ TIL: A Sixth-grader's science fair project discovered that Truvia sweetener is a insecticide
ANbJl TIL about Ann Hodges the only known person to have been struck by a meteorite and survived