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TIL the highest paid woman CEO in the US was born a male.
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TIL that a Blink Comparator is a mechanical device for visually comparing two similar images. In 1930, it was instrumental in the discovery of Pluto.
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TIL that in 2012 a South Pacific island, recorded by Google Earth and Australian maps, was discovered to not actually exist
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TIL upon the death of Queen Elizabeth II, the phrase “London Bridge is down” will announce her death to the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. This will set into motion “Operation London Bridge” (formed in the 1960s), which is the code name for what will happen in the days after she dies.
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TIL Pope Francis is the 266th Pope of the Catholic Church
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TIL In the 19th century naturalist John James Audubon observed a flock of passenger pigeons over Minnesota that took three days to pass his observation point and, in doing so it totally blocked out the sun so that the entire area lived in a bird-created total eclipse.