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TIL the original B&W set for the Addams Family was actually pink because it looks better on B&W

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gp8b TIL that it has been theorised that the Pillars of Creation, made famous by the Hubble Telescope, may no longer exist. They may have been destroyed by a supernova shockwave around 6000 years ago, but the light from this hasn’t reached Earth, so we won’t see it for another 1000 years.
BoLr TIL that Christmas for children in Medieval England meant getting extra beatings so as to ‘remind them of Herod’s cruelty’ instead of getting presents
70Lb TIL that 1 / 998001 gives a complete sequence from 000 to 999 in order
VBWx0 TIL that Louis Braille, who lost his sight at the age of 3 due to an accident, went on to invent the Braille system of reading and writing for the blind at just 15 years old. His system revolutionized accessibility for the visually impaired and is still used worldwide today.
rW5M TIL Neptune has the strongest winds in the Solar System: 2,100 km/hour