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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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5V16D TIL that United Fruit Company, now Chiquita, played a major role in the 1954 Guatemalan coup d’tat after the country redistributed 400,000 acres of uncultivated company land.
gMan4 TIL of Scientists who dropped off closed boxes in a remote Ethiopian village containing tablets, taped shut, with no instructions. Within 5 months, the children had not only learned to use 47 apps, but also managed to hack the Android OS.
4XLBR TIL: The vampire squid is not a squid or an octopus. It is the only living member of Vampyromorpha, an ancient cephalopod order which was a precursor to squids and octopuses
EgQ0p TIL about the historical significance of the Industrial Revolution and its profound impact on society and economies worldwide.
Rye9 TIL that scientists found a daddy longlegs fossil trapped in amber that has kept an erection for 99 million years