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TIL Lobster used to be dirt cheap in the 18th century and was often fed to the lower class

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8oNb TIL Neil deGrasse Tyson assisted DC Comics in selecting a real-life star that would be an appropriate parent star to Superman’s home planet Krypton. A red dwarf star in the constellation Corvus was chosen. Corvus is also Latin for “Crow” which is the mascot of Superman’s high school.
DR7p TIL that there is a hypothetical method of rocket propulsion that uses nuclear explosions for thrust
OoeVY TIL Vesta Stoudt, the mother of two Navy Sailors wrote a letter to President Roosevelt explaing the way ammunition was packed often didn’t work. She suggested a rippable cloth based tape, leading to the invention of duct tape.
Mek9K TIL of ancient Egyptian king Psamtik's experiment to discover the origin of human language. He forbade anyone to speak to two infants. Their gibberish sounded like Phrygian, which Psamtik concluded to be the origin of language. Phrygian emerged in the 8th century BC;2000 years after ancient Egyptian
5OPD TIL Cinderella’s Castle at the Magic Kingdom uses a technique known as forced perspective, meaning it gets smaller as it gets taller, giving it the appearance of being much bigger than it really is.