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TIL: Singapore is represented as a triangle in PolandBall comics and there is a paper examining why published in April 2023

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LnwP TIL that astronomers found a star that formed in the same gas cloud as the Sun.
Wkn44 TIL that in the 1800s, US dairy producers would regularly mix their milk with water, chalk, embalming fluid and cow brains to enhance appearance and flavor. Hundreds of children died from the mixture of formaldehyde, dirt, and bacteria in their milk
d8EnQ TIL that gargoyles on a 15th century church in Loire-Atlantique, France, now include Gizmo and a Gremlin from "Gremlins" and the xenomorph from "Alien." The characters were added when the centuries-old church was restored in the 1990s.
WkV8d TIL Only 10 Scouts earned the Invention merit badge, which required obtaining a patent for an invention. It was discontinued in 1915, and is the most rare badge.
YgWP TIL that there are only 500 blockbuster video stores left in the USA