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TIL Palomar Observatory representatives have managed to persuade the city councils of San Diego and its neighboring communities to light their streets with low-pressure sodium lamps in order to reduce light pollution for their astronomers

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awBDA TIL that Ohio and Michigan "went to war" in 1835 in a border dispute called the Toledo War. No one was killed, but one man got stabbed.
BWEK TIL that in July, after receiving a warning from the FBI on his PC, Jay Matthew Riley turned himself in to police for possessing child pornography. The warning was fake and generated by a worm that had infected his computer.
xV07 TIL when Galileo presented his version of the telescope to the City of Venice in 1609, he did so at least partially because he needed the money to help support a throng of illegitimate children.
MVkm TIL there is a constructed language that can be spoken, signed, played musically, written as words or numbers, drawn as shapes, or painted. It’s called Solresol.
Mmr8 TIL Sergeant Tommy Prince of the 1st Special Service Brigade (aka “The Devil’s Brigade”) would sneak into SS Officers’ quarters and kill every third officer while they slept in their beds, and leave the others alive so they could find them dead in the morning.