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TIL Neil DeGrasse Tyson will be hosting an updated version of The Cosmos on Fox in 2013.

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bAr4 TIL A volcanic eruption in Indonisia in 1815 temporarily altered the Earth’s climate resulting in many parts of the US Northeast accumulating 6 inches of snow from June 6th-7th the following year
E106V TIL Neil Armstrong resigned from NASA to take a teaching job, where he stayed for more than eight years—longer than his career as an astronaut. As part of a research group that included physician Henry Heimlich, he helped to design an artificial heart-lung system based on Apollo technology
BgdJW TIL Sushi was invented in China, not Japan, and was a way of preserving fish in salt.
Z4Qp TIL that 25 years ago, two million people joined their hands to form a human chain spanning over 600 kilometres (370 mi) across the three Baltic states in memory of the victims of the Soviet terror.
wLYr1 TIL that the the first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C.