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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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woPPW TIL It’s just kind of a strange coincidence not found anywhere else. The diameter of the Sun is about 400 times larger than that of the Moon,but it is also roughly 400 times farther away from Earth. These two qualities almost cancel each other out, and the Sun usually winds up looking the same size.
GJvj TIL During the filming of Titanic an angry crew member put the drug PCP into the soup that James Cameron and various other crew ate one night, which sent more than 50 people to the hospital. The person behind the poisoning was never caught.
R5D07 TIL Pythagoras was supposedly the first person to call the heavens, the cosmos, for in his eyes, this celestial ocean embodied perfection, and was intricately adorned with infinite beauty and animated life. And he was also the first to call himself a philosopher. In fact, he coined the term.
W0bL TIL that Wladimir Klitschko auctioned off his 1996 Olympic gold medal in March 2012 for charity. The buyer payed $1 million but immediatly returned it because he wanted it to stay in the family.
4kln5 TIL Doris “Dorie” Miller was the first Black American awarded the Navy Cross. A mess attendant during Pearl Harbor, without training he manned an anti-aircraft gun without training and carried wounded sailors to safety, becoming a WWII hero.