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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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GY1A1 TIL: People who suffer from gout are significantly less likely to develop Parkinson’s disease.
N7B5P TIL that in 2009, the government of the Maldives held an underwater cabinet meeting in a symbolic cry for help over rising sea levels that threaten the country's existence
Lg40 TIL in 1933 Major General Smedley Butler proclaimed there was a Coup d'état plot against Roosevelt by the Fascist American upper class who were opposed to the New Deal. He was asked to lead half a million men to take the white house and establish a dictatorship.
BrBvd TIL of Noah Wall, the boy who grew a new brain. During a pregnancy scan, doctors found out that Noah had only 2% of his brain intact. Despite this, amazingly, at 2 years old his 2% brain had grown into 80%. Noah’s development over the years has been like that of a normal child.
p1mQ TIL that, from a biological point of view, vegetables don’t exist. All food items we call vegetables can actually be labelled as a real plant part (carrots are roots, lettuce is a leaf, etc)