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TIL The north pole of the planet is actually a magnetic south pole right now, but it is still referred to as “magnetic north” to correspond with our geographic measurements

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wLNj1 TIL Looking at the sky through a cardboard paper towel tube and through a standard drinking straw is about the same as the difference in the amount of sky seen in ordinary binoculars and a small telescope. Binoculars in astronomy are used for their wider field of view
j6kOR TIL that during the fall of Saigon in 1975, at the end of the Vietnam War, the U.S. military used the song White Christmas as a secret signal to begin evacuations before the city fell.
ov4r TIL trolled has been added to the Oxford English Dictionary
XEkr6 TIL that chewing gum is a synthetic rubber - polyisobutylene - and can be recycled into things like shoes, coffee mugs, pencils and rulers.
NRPQ TIL the average American family’s net worth fell by nearly 40% between 2007 and 2010