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TIL that looking at a solar eclipse is not inherently more dangerous than looking at the sun at any other point in time. But outside of an eclipse, people don’t normally stare at the sun for an extended period of time.

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DnNP TIL that the first “men’s rights movement” dates to the 1920s; under the slogan of “equal rights for men”, they opposed alimony, child support, and “the favoritism of the authorities in favor of women”
lo84a TIL Martin Luther King, Jr., was actually born Michael King, Jr. His father, also a minister, changed his and his son's name to Martin Luther when he was five, after the famed Church Reformer.
d8Ed7 TIL: Pirates were generally considered by the English government to be reserve naval forces, and were sometimes given active encouragement such as knighthoods. Royal pardons were regularly issued and the public's opinion of pirates was often favorable, some considering them akin to patrons.
KRNB TIL Winston Groom was paid $350,000 for the screenplay rights to his novel Forrest Gump and was contracted for a 3 percent share of the film’s net profits but never received his share due to hollywood accounting which posits that the movie lost money
NBoM TIL that after the extinction of the dinosaurs, there was a turtle that was the size of a car and could eat crocodiles.