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TIL 99 percent of the population in the United States and Europe are unable to see the Milky Way at night due to artificial light

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WDYL TIL that an organization called food for the poor has a CEO named Robin Mahfood
0wvj1 TIL that being a NASCAR pit crew member is so physically demanding that today instead of giving mechanics physical training, they take athletes and give them auto mechanic training
7rV6P TIL that fully grown Sunflowers don't always face the Sun. The property of facing the Sun is observed only in the young flower heads and it stops as the flower matures. Mature Sunflowers generally face the east.
a8pdM TIL of Ticker Tape Synesthesia, or seeing words in writing as they're spoken, sort-of like a news ticker or subtitles. There's no known cause, but it's thought to result from excess inter-connectivity of neurons in the different sensory regions of the brain.
nEWW TIL at the height of the Cold War the titanium used in building the legendary SR-71 Blackbird was sourced by the CIA (via dummy companies) from the completely oblivious Soviet Union.