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TIL that the “Green Flash” as seen in the Pirates of the Caribbean film is a real phenomenon.

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Y7WjA TIL that there have been three major plague pandemics in history. The Plague of Justinian in the 6th century, the Black Death in the 14th century, and the 3rd Pandemic beginning in 1855. The 3rd Pandemic was considered active until 1959, and hundreds of cases of plague are still reported every year.
vjN8 TIL the ancestor of the first whales was a midsize, land dwelling mammal
VMlQB TIL Stanford University developed Artificial Intelligence which can guess if a person is gay, based on a photo of their face, with 91% accuracy on dating sites.
N7ow6 TIL in NBA history no team has ever come back to win after trailing 3–0 in a playoff series
dDA9E TIL a super-volcanic eruption in Indonesia caused a "Year Without Summer" in Europe and Eastern USA in 1816. This indirectly led to the invention of the bicycle, the writing of Frankenstein and Mormonism.