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TIL a NYC councilman proposed adding light guards to street lights as a means of curbing city light pollution. Among just making the night sky easier to see, the change would protect wildlife from the negative effects of stray light.

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xVPmb TIL Socrates claimed all his wisdom came from a voice in his head that told him what not to do but never what to do. The reason he was arrested wasn't just that he did not believe in Athen's gods, but that he presented this voice in his head as a new god.
4kDNN TIL about the true crime case of Shane coffey & how he meticulously planned to murder a woman in the UK after learning twice that she was talking to other males besides him & travelled all the way from Boston to the 🇬🇧 with a concealed 🔪 to carry out his plan only to be beaten up by her brother
QJxee TIL of Myrtle Corbin, a woman born with two pairs of legs and two sets of internal and external reproductive anatomies, who gave birth to five children in her lifetime and had no major health issues, living to the age of 59
v1YR7 TIL if you have a bar with a gang problem they'll be gone within three weeks if every third song played is from a female vocalist, according to Jon Taffer from Bar Rescue.
XEkvQ TIL Japanese do not throw away broken pottery, but instead fix it by repairing it with gold so that the cracks become part of its beauty, as part of a philosophy that treats breakage and repair as part of the history of an object, rather than something to hide