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6EO6l TIL Andromeda is 6x bigger in the sky than the moon, and it's just too dim to see with the naked eye
JYQ1j TIL about the film Wild Bill Hickock, made in 1923, which was the first film to portray Wyatt Earp, the famous gunslinger. The real Wyatt Earp was still alive, and served as a technical adviser for the film.
GYBZ5 [TIL] All interviews shown in the movie Intersellar were real interviews with people that lived through the Dust Bowl in the 1930's. These are not actors. This happened to them.
KO6MR TIL in 2008 a man at a ski resort in Italy stole a rubber padding used on a barrier to stop people at the bottom of a sledding hill. He used the padding to sled down the hill, hitting the barrier that he stole the padding from and died.
E1QyW TIL in 1981 Dr. Michael Shannon, a pediatrician back then, saved the life of a 3.2 pounds new-born Chris Trokey, who had a 50/50 chance at surviving. In 2011, Trokey returned the favor as a paramedic when he helped saving a seriously injured Dr. Shannon from a car accident.