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TIL If you were on the moon during a total lunar eclipse, you would simultaneously see every sunset and sunrise on the Earth as a red ring around the globe.

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VMdLZ TIL: If you gently press the bottom right corner of your eyeball through the eyelid, you see a little dark spot in the top left of your vision. This is because we see the world upside down, but our brain translate it so it looks right side up to us.
69GAW TIL that the movie Scram! (1932) was banned in the Netherlands because two male actors sit on a bed with a woman to whom they were not married. Censors felt this was "indecent". Today the film is not banned.
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QNKwd TIL that the name "Bullet Train" refers specifically to the Japanese Shinkansen system and isn't just a nickname for any highspeed train with a bullet shaped nose
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