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TIL The stars and lights you see when you rub your eyes is called phosphenes

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nvnY TIL Mark Twain was born during a visit by Halley’s Comet and predicted he would die during its next visit. He wrote “here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together” He died the day after Halley’s Comet returned.
b6lx0 TIL that the Great Vowel Shift between 1400-1700 was a series of pronunciation changes in English. With that many words froze with spelling and pronunciations not matching. This is why some English vowels are a mess with words like "meat" and "meet" being spelt differently but pronounced the same.
woYo7 TIL close to 30 percent of apps used at work are duplicative, or add no value to the work process.
EgOyX TIL the label who signed Casiopea (famous jazz fusion band) also signed The Stalin (famous punk rock band). Always though Alfa Records was only City Pop for some reason.
Rm84 TIL The Simpsons depiction of Homer’s job qualifications are correct. You only need a High School diploma to operate a nuclear reactor.