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TIL over the course of its 20 years on Nickelodeon, The Fairly OddParents has been cancelled five times

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pYnYO TIL eVscope users have the ability to participate in Citizen Science efforts led by the SETI Institute. The smart telescope technology (4.5 inch reflector) is sensitive enough to image the transit of exoplanets and the occultation of a star by a Trojan Asteroid
Z8OBB TIL that Horace de Vere Cole would wander the streets with a cow's teat poking through the fly of his trousers; once he judged he had caused optimum outrage he would cut off the offending protrusion with a pair of scissors.
Lk7L0 TIL A factoid was originally defined as a piece of information that's commonly believed to be true, but which is actually false. For example, the idea that the Great Wall of China can be seen from space by the naked eye is a factoid
gMeaX TIL Ted Kaczynski, who is often referred to as the unabomber, has an I.Q. of 167 and attended Harvard before he went on to kill 3 people and injure 23 others by sending bombs via the postal service.
WkaBB TIL of Anton's syndrome, a disorder where people believe they can see when in fact, they are cortically blind. They can't be convinced otherwise though and will be very offended if you point their blindness out and start confabulating/making things up when asked what exactly they are seeing.