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TIL supernovae become so bright that they may briefly outshine their entire home galaxy

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exR4 TIL the iconic ‘Blue marble’ photograph of the earth was originally oriented with the south pole at the top. However, the image was turned upside-down to fit the traditional view of the world as popularized by the mercator projection.
N7JLb TIL of Mett Kamil. In 2014 the Polish guy drank too much, pronounced 'dead', woke up in the morgue, went back to the bar for more drinks.
R7bl6 TIL flu season is in the winter because the virus is more stable when the air is colder and drier. It was proven in an experiment exposing guinea pigs the flu in various temperatures and humidity.
x4bB TIL that baked beans started with a bean native to the Americas exported to France/Italy in the 1500’s, were brought back to America with European colonization, then exported to the UK as an “American delicacy” in the late 1800’s, and are now reimported to the US as “UK Baked Beans”
a6kA TIL Tolkien didn’t write the Elvish languages to fit into the Lord of the Rings, but wrote the Lord of the Rings as a history for his over 15 different languages