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TIL: about The Axis of Evil, an anomaly in astronomical observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background that gives the location of Earth a greater significance than expected by chance. It appears to suggest that our solar system is the center of the entire universe.

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Z8Dgv TIL members of Lewis & Clark's expedition took mercury-bearing pills to "treat" constipation and other conditions, and thus left mercury deposits wherever they dug their latrines. These mercury signals have been used to pinpoint some of the 600 camps on the voyage.
e0ang TIL According to Josephus (80 AD), a Roman soldier lifted his robe, showed his bare ass to an audience of Jews and farted. This caused a riot. Roman leader Cumunus called in reinforcements. Up to 10,000 people died.
5YoGD TIL the word 'millionaire' is a French word coined in 1719 to describe those working in the Mississippi Company earning millions of livres which is one of the earliest examples of an economic bubble
wEJJ TIL there is a Superhero Supply store in Brooklyn with a Cape Fitting room with a wind tunnel. They also sell Oxygen Gum, Bottled Chaos and have an Invisibility Testing Center.
BrZjW TIL in 1989, then Prime Minister of Japan Sōsuke Uno resigned after a geisha revealed she had an extramarital affair with him. The key of the scandal wasn't morality, but that he had failed to properly provide and support his mistress with an appropriate amount, and was branded as a stingy man.