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TIL that in 2004, Graham Norton hosted "The Graham Norton Effect" on Comedy Central. It received negative reviews and was cancelled after one season.

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J5pB TIL of Harvard Observatory astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt; given the boring job of examining the luminosity of stars in thousands of photos, she discovered how to measure the distance between the Earth and faraway galaxies. At the time, she was not allowed to operate Harvard’s telescope.
Q9kk TIL there is a version of the Bible translated into Hawaiian Pidgin called ‘Da Jesus Book’
57kD TIL a man convicted of 544 murders, which included 24 fetuses he cut out of pregnant women was tortured for 3 days, broken on the wheel and quartered while still alive.
4kKmw TIL that the volleyball move of setting and spiking emerged in the Philippines and was called ‘bomba’ or ‘Filipino bomb’
6VZm TIL that bronze is generally harder than iron. The Bronze Age didn’t give way to the Iron Age because iron weaponry was superior; rather, iron was more plentiful and easier to work with.