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TIL that half of all stars aren’t in a galaxy

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nWNwo TIL The Fairey Swordfish biplane was considered out of date by 1939 but was effective throughout WW2. Swordfish sunk more enemy tonnage than any other plane, sunk numerous U-boats, disabled the Bismarck, and remained in use into 1945.
1ayWD TIL Walmart is the world’s largest retail company. From 2005 to 2018 US companies dominated the ten world’s largest retailers.
PYogV TIL in 2018 an Oregon man stole a car in front of deputies and led them on a 40-mile chase. When he got arrested, he explained that he had taken LSD and thought he was living a real-life version of Grand Theft Auto.
e0nLn TIL that even though we remember Nixon as a terrible president for Watergate, he was actually tremendously popular, and in his second election won 49 of the 50 states.
JQ0v TIL: In 1979, Kane Kramer not only drew (quite accuratly) what would become the iPod, he accurately predicted digital music downloads before the internet as we know it existed.