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TIL the opposite of sparkle is darkle.

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ADbnB TIL that roadrunners can kill and eat rattlesnakes by capturing them and smashing the snakes head against a rock until it dies.
nQbo TIL when England’s first escalator was installed in 1898, smelling salts and brandy were offered to customers at the top in case they had been made faint from the ride
69G8X TIL that during WWII, the Ford Motor Company was losing so much money that the Roosevelt Administration considered a government takeover of the company in order to ensure continued war production.
MWr7 TIL the star Mira has a surface that pulsates in such a way as to increase and decrease its brightness over periods ranging from about 80 to more than 1,000 days. This means sometimes the star is incredibly dim, while other times it is one of the brightest stars in its constellation.
4XRvX TIL King Gillette, who founded Gillette razors, believed that everyone in the US should live in a giant city called Metropolis powered by Niagara Falls.