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TIL Stars appear to twinkle because their light passes through our atmosphere and is bent and distorted by varying temperatures and densities of air

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R5ge4 TIL about an invented language from the 1800s called Esperanto. Its goal was to become a "world language" and the founder LL Zamenhof constructed it to be very easy to learn. It can be found on Duolingo and is the world's most widely spoken constructed international auxiliary language.
E1v9p TIL when Consumer Reports tested the Olympic WaterGuard wood stain, the product was so bad that it "didn’t take to the wood at all.".
n5OW TIL that in 1985 two researchers from Oxford published a paper that put the definitive date of Jesus’ crucifixion at Friday, April 3, 33 AD
APQB TIL that a school had to be shut down after 6th graders sprayed too much Axe, and several kids had to be hospitalised for it.
yYJ TIL during WW2 US military drove (then)millions of dollars worth of excess vehicles and equipment off the shore of Vanuatu, to make more room for returning troops