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TIL that binoculars are sufficient for stargazing

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axZM TIL that in Iceland, the phonebook is sorted by first names because everyone’s surname is basically their father’s first name followed by -son or -dottir
7pAZ TIL Charles Manson took 150 hours of Scientology courses and but rejected it as “too crazy”
xVOJ1 TIL how the marathon got its name. The event was instituted in commemoration of the fabled (meaning it's a myth) run of the Greek soldier Pheidippides, a messenger from the Battle of Marathon to Athens, who reported the victory and died from exhaustion later on.
mxkpv TIL in the 1870s, the city of Liège, Belgium hired 37 cats to deliver mail. It was unsuccessful.
4Xm05 TIL of Jackie Coogan, a child actor in the silent film era who earned millions of dollars, only to find out in his 20s that his parents spent it all on jewelry and cars. He sued and the litigation resulted in the passage of the Coogan Act, which protects child actors