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TIL that binoculars are sufficient for stargazing

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KW79 TIL that New York City spent nearly $1 million on typewriters in 2009, mostly for the NYPD, which still used them to fill out property and evidence vouchers, which were printed on carbon-paper forms
b9g00 TIL that the Oompa-Loompas in Charlie And The Chocolate Factory were originally called Whipple-Scrumpets.
16O6X TIL the US enacted permanent Daylight Savings Time in 1973. It was repealed within a year when public support for it plummeted after the following winter.
8aBJG TIL A man thought he had bladder cancer but he actually had a fully functioning female reproductive system.
jDGN TIL when the Confederate army surrendered in 1865, a Union cannonade was fired in celebration but General Grant ordered it to stop saying “The war is over. The rebels are our countrymen again.