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TIL Until the 1990s, the Sun was the only star whose surface had been resolved

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b9W0Z TIL the Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics said that there is no evidence to support the use of detox diets for weight management or toxin elimination, & that considering the financial costs and potential health risks of them, they should be discouraged by health professionals.
8anbb TIL Only elephants can hear the sounds Mars make because the frequencies are too low for humans to hear.
xVxwB TIL that Louis Armstrong, an influential jazz figure, didn't receive formal musical training until he was arrested for firing a pistol at age 11. In there, the music teacher, Peter Davis, taught him how to play the bugle and cornet. In retrospect, Louis said that was when "me and music got married."
P1L9G TIL of Antoine Le Picard who had hated Napoleon ever since they were both teenagers at school and in his dying act, Picard helped defeat Napoleon at the Battle of Acre.
aEvA TIL the first drinking straw was designed to have a diameter slightly smaller than the typical lemon pip, as the inventor was tired of getting lemon seeds in his mouth when drinking lemonade.