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TIL the Colorado state slogan is “Enter a Higher State”
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nvo7
TIL the most powerful commercial radio station ever was WLW (700KHz AM), which during certain times in the 1930s broadcast 500kW radiated power. At night, it covered half the globe. Neighbors within the vicinity of the transmitter heard the audio in their pots, pans, and mattresses.
NLaM
TIL that pencils are yellow because American pencil makers wanted people to know they contained Chinese graphite
nekEd
TIL Pope Clement VII personally approved Nicolaus Copernicus’s theory that the Earth revolves around the Sun in 1533, 99 years before Galileo Galilei’s heresy trial for similar ideas.
RnM1
TIL … 10% of all photographs taken in the entire history of photography were taken in 2012
X0eNj
TIL Amputees sometimes feel pain in their missing limbs after they are removed. This is known as phantom pain.