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TIL Colorado’s Department of Transportation regularly shuts down one of its major interstates on sunny mornings due to extreme sun glare

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MelAa TIL Johannes Kepler wrote the world's first genuine science fiction in 1609. The novel advanced a Copernican model of the universe, described gravity decades before Newton, envisioned speech synthesis centuries before computers, and presaged space travel three hundred years before the Moon landing.
OGx6L TIL Arguably, the oldest extant European book is the Liber Linteus, an Etruscan book written on linen and dated to the 3rd century BC. The fabric of the book was preserved because it was used for mummy wrappings in Ptolemaic Egypt.
6Xjm TIL a single gene is thought to be responsible for our ability to speak. If put into mice, it changes their behavior and vocalization patterns
KORZ4 Til that an average American spends 700 dollars on gifts and holiday goodies, which totals upto 400 billion dollars each year
DAoJ TIL that all of the many self-portraits that Van Gogh is famous for were painted in a span of just 3 years.