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TIL Governor Al Smith and candidate for President in 1928 dropped out of school at 14 and never attended high school or college

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XaGR TIL Academy award winner Sir Ben Kingsley real name is Krishna Pandit Bhanji
Lk6k0 TIL while filming Armageddon Ben Affleck asked Michael Bay why they would train oil drillers as astronauts instead of the opposite to which Michael Bay told him to ‘shut the f*ck up’
epnJ5 TIL dust mites are nearly everywhere; 84% of homes in the United States have dust mite allergens in at least one bed.
Pl1E TIL Saturn’s moon Enceladus has gysers that shoot large jets of water vapor into space and according to NASA “is emerging as the most habitable spot beyond Earth in the Solar System for life as we know it.”
Yp7Pv TIL The human eye primarily views the Northern Lights in faint colors and shades of gray and white. You can only really know what the true color of the aurora is by looking at it with a camera's LCD viewfinder screen or on a computer.