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TIL that the quasar 3C 273 is so incredibly bright that if it were 36 lightyears away it would appear brighter than the sun in our sky, and is 4 trillion times brighter than our star.

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1a1MP TIL that candy and snacks are placed close to market cash registers to take advantage of shoppers' decision fatigue.
XEKKD TIL in 1967 a three way battle erupted in Laos as Burmese militia, remnants of Chinese Nationalist armies and the Royal Loa Army each attempted to capture a mule train carrying 16 tons of opium. The Loatian forces emerged victorious and later peddled the heroin to US troops in Vietnam.
laBK TIL the han dynasty of China drilled for natural gas, tranposted it through pipelines and used it in stoves
v1pPR TIL that the main character in Tomb Raider was originally intended to be a man until the developers began to worry that the character would be seen as derivative of Indiana Jones, so the character's gender was changed and Lara Croft was born.
WZxd TIL: HYDROX is the original and OREO is the knockoff. Sunshine made Hydrox in 1908 and Oreo copied it in 1912, yet Hydrox is perceived as the knockoff. Hydrox cookies have a tangy, less-sweet filling and a crunchier cookie that gets less soggy in milk. Hydrox will relaunch nationally in 2015.