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TIL that if the Andromeda Galaxy were visible to the naked eye, it would be six times larger than the moon in the night sky

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jLGp TIL that, before his days as a supernatural detective, Norville “Shaggy” Rogers was once a track star and gymnast, “both of which hint at his uncanny skills in quickly evading villains.”
MLX0 TIL: For over a decade Sen. John McCain has been trying to get a presidential posthumous pardon for black boxer Jack Johnson, who in 1912 was imprisoned for transporting a white girlfriend across state lines.
9YV8r TIL that Homework was extremely controversial in the 1800s and early 1900. In 1901 California even banned homework for everybody under the age of 15.
Y9ad TIL Isaac Newton’s Principia Mathematica contained a simple calculation error that went unnoticed for 300 years.
4eZo TIL JK Rowling deleted the rules of Quidditch from the original Harry Potter manuscript “because she thought it made it too technical”. Her agent made her put them back in