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TIL Alfred Nobel (creator of dynamite) is thought to have created the prize after an unflattering obituary naming him the “Merchant of Death.”

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GAo1G TIL A 20mm Kellner eyepiece through 2 inch aperture solar telescope produces 18x view of the Sun. A refractor telescope shows slightly sharper views of the sun’s disk than reflector telescopes, showing detail in and around sunspots
XEnG6 TIL Rhode Island’s Cranston School District is sending parents who owe lunch money $20 or more and who haven’t paid off the balance within 60 days to collection agency
4XOW6 TIL The East India Company controlled its own army, which by 1800 comprised some 200,000 soldiers, more than twice the membership of the British Army at that time. The army was used to carry out officially sanctioned looting within Indian States, along with forced over-taxation.
pY6Jb TIL Charlie chaplain was born 4 days apart from Hitler. Both had the same mustache style, both grew up in poverty. Chaplains first full sound film was The Great Dictator, satirizing Hitler. He spent two years writing the script, but filming started 6 days after Britain declared war on Germany.
LnL9 TIL that David (of the Bible’s David & Goliath) declared that he loved his friend, Jonathan, “more than any woman”. But many Christians refuse to accept any possibility that it could’ve been a gay relationship.