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TIL a supernova occurs roughly every 10 seconds in the observable universe

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yQvxp TIL At 83 years old, Michael Caine changed his legal name because "An airport security guard would say, ‘Hi, Michael Caine,’ and suddenly I’d give him a passport with a different name on it. I could stand there for an hour. So I changed my name."
GYE7 TIL there are Chinese government records that show that a man by the name of Li Ching-Yuen, lived for 256 years between the years of 1677 and 1933, buried 23 wives, and had 180 living descendants.
k5jE TIL the city which is set to host the 2022 Qatar FIFA World Cup final does not yet exist
pQ7Q TIL that, in response to Brown vs. Board of Education, Prince Edward County, Virginia closed all public schools for 5 years rather than integrate them
QNMap TIL Slovenia has more major governmental subdivisions (201) than there are nations in the U.N. (195), and that Serbia, Uganda, Latvia and Philippines also have over 100 subdivisions