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TIL that lunch was not thought of as a meal until the 1850s or later

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8alK8 TIL WW2 Black Sheep Squadron member Bill Case cheated death by randomly lowering the seat in his cockpit. In battle, a bullet from a Japanese Zero hit his cockpit and bloodied his scalp. If he had been sitting an inch higher, he would be dead. He went on to live another 52 years.
VBV78 TIL That a binary star system passed through the outer boundary of the solar system ~70,000 years ago, which would've been visible to humans living in the northern hemisphere at the time.
aPJL TIL in the US nonfatal firearm crimes dropped from 1.5 million in 1993 to 467,300 in 2011
AD8A7 TIL There are more multi-cellular zooplankton per square kilometer in the Chukchi Sea than there are stars in the Milky Way and collectively there are plankton than there are galaxies in the observable universe.
YproB Today I learned that stock market fraud has been around since the 16-18th centuries