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TIL Upon George Washington’s death, Napoleon Bonaparte ordered 10 days of mourning throughout the country

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N78W1 TIL the 1910s and 1920s are the only two decades when the median center of U.S. population moved east, instead of west.
GY15Q TIL there’s a Superman cartoon made in the 40s that pioneered high quality animation and cost half a million per episode to draw
r1MW TIL there is a Magic the Gathering Musical
6EBVW TIL halting sneezing via blocking the nostrils and mouth is a dangerous manoeuvre. It may lead to numerous complications, such as pneudomediastinum (air trapped in the chest between both lungs), perforation of the tympanic membrane (perforated eardrum), and even rupture of a cerebral aneurysm.
970B TIL You Could Fit All the Planets in the Solar System Between the Earth and the Moon.