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TIL that solstices, the days with either the most or least sunlight, don’t have either the earliest or latest sunrises or sunsets of the year.

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VBKp8 TIL the philosopher, David Hume, served as secretary to general James St Clair in a planned invasion of Canada, which is soon cancelled; then they invade France, where several comic events ensue, and the military career of Hume end ingloriously, without any significant military achievements.
DbXY TIL Jason Alexander (George Costanza) is a practicing magician, and only switched to acting as a career when he realized that he was unlikely to succeed as a magician.
JY4vj TIL Beekeeping is leading to a decline of wild bees, and is not considered a conservationist effort.
woNXP TIL about the pinhead pearlfish, which lives inside the body cavity of sea cucumbers. Individuals fight over host sea cucumbers, and it enters them through the anus.
BEPW TIL Nikola Tesla did not believe in the existence of electrons