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TIL that during a power outage in 1994, LA residents made numerous calls to 911 reporting strange silver clouds hovering in the sky. They were seeing the Milky Way for the first time.

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yQxx8 TIL, the Midnight Club was actually a underground street racing team in Tokyo
VBkYp TIL about the Scully effect, where women were inspired to take up STEM when they saw Scully on the X files; as a smart, skeptical woman and not a sidekick
5VON8 TIL the small city of Coalinga, California got its name due to steam trains. The town used to be known as "Coaling Station A," where trains would stop to pick up coal. Eventually the name became shortened to "Coaling A" and then "Coalinga."
XEPr8 TIL that the megalodon shark was NOT outcompeted by predatory cetaceans
PYw8G TIL in the 1950s the US Navy sprayed San Francisco with a bacteria known to leave 'pink slime' residue in damp environments like bathrooms and now known to cause UTIs and pneumonia, in order to test the impact of an offshore biological weapons attack on a coastal city