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TIL that ice at -50°C is as hard as glass

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Ab1x TIL Jon Stewart and his wife founded an animal sanctuary in New Jersey to rescue abused factory farm animals
P1KPn TIL when William I, German Emperor, was crowned King of Prussia on 18 October 1861, it was the first coronation of a Prussian King since 1701 and the first of a German King since 1806
loJEa TIL after the big bang only hydrogen and helium along with trace amounts of lithium and beryllium were created. The other 86 elements found in nature were all created by nuclear reactions inside stars.
yVDeM TIL that Japanese people custom of saying "moshi moshi" when answering the phone is somewhat rooted from historical belief that ghosts and spirits couldn’t say the word properly.
yVJGV TIL that Mel Carnahan was the first person to be elected to the United States Senate posthumously.