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TIL : The planet Uranus used to be called George
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TIL the “Q” in Q-tip stands for “quality”.
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TIL that the US government during WW2 asked the press to avoid discussing “polonium, uranium, ytterbium, hafnium, protactinium, radium, rhenium, thorium, deuterium”. Only uranium was secret, for the Manhattan Project, but was listed with the other elements to hide its importance.
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TIL On the magnitude scale, brightest objects have the smallest number and the faintest objects have the largest numbers. The full moon has a magnitude of - 12.6 while the brightness of the Sun is about -26.7
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TIL that the area code around Cape Canaveral is 3……….2……….1
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TIL that there is a concept for a roller coaster called the Euthanasia Coaster, which is designed to kill its passengers.