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TIL Sleeping pills are more likely to give you cancer than smoking

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vPNN7 TIL in May 2028 there is a 45% of an Einstein ring being observed when Alpha Centauri A passes in front of a distant red star, which would be the first ring observed due to gravitational lensing of a star by another star
bdJZ TIL: Homeopathy ‘treatments’ must be labelled to say they do not work in the U.S.
BgJlr TIL that in 1952, the USS Wisconsin received a single, direct-hit from a North Korean 155mm gun battery. Despite the damage being minimal, the Wisconsin responded by returning fire with all nine of her Mark 7 16-inch guns, prompting an escorting ship to signal the Wisconsin with "Temper, Temper."
nErY TIL Christian Bale turned down the role of James Bond, saying “I’ve already played a serial killer.”
mxNNv TIL that an anonymous biologist managed to get a fake scientific research paper accepted into four supposedly peer-reviewed science journals, to expose the problem of predatory journals. He based the paper on a notoriously bad Star Trek episode where characters turned into weird amphibian-people.