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TIL that ice can actually refer to 17 unique solid crystalline phases of water.

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1MXP TIL that the company that produces Sriracha hot sauce made $60 million in the year 2012 alone, while not spending one penny at all on advertising.
l7OM7 TIL only 4 percent of mobile users consume more than 50 gigabytes of cellular data a month
7rGPL TIL that half of the US population lives in just 146 counties out of the 3000+ total.
rlE0 TIL Eric Holder prosecuted more whistleblowers between 2008 and 2012 than the total prosecuted by all previous attorney generals combined
16BaV TIL that in Starship Troopers (1997) the crew used over 300,000 blank rounds. Thought to be a record at the time and due the following years of CGI, the record probably has never been broken.