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OMe TIL that in 1752 Voltaire wrote a science fiction story about an alien from a planet orbiting the star Sirius who meets another alien from Saturn, and then they both travel to Earth. In 1752.
wLxoY TIL of the Sharp EL-8061 - essentially a pocket-watch/calculator hybrid
J1rDk TIL Confederate General Joseph Shelby refused to surrender after the Civil War and crossed into Mexico with his men
WO7N TIL that with the invention of the pendulum clock in 1656, Christiaan Huygens increased the best accuracy of clocks from 15 minutes deviation a day to around 15 seconds a day.
nWD47 TIL California limits the amount of calories in school lunches to 850 kcal for high schoolers