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TIL there is a water vapor cloud in space which has 100 trillion times the amount of water present on Earth.

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78ZPx TIL that the horror cliché of zombies eating brains dates back to the 1985 horror-comedy film “Return of the Living Dead”, in which the zombies didn’t eat brains out of hunger, but instead because it eased the "pain" of being a zombie.
0rM TIL that Australia had an “emu war” in which machine guns and artillery was used.
P1AZO TIL that the Battle of Aspern-Essling in 1809, was both the first time that Napoleon was personally defeated in battle, and the first major loss for the French army in a decade.
4XrRb TIL there is a sculpture on the grounds of the CIA which I has four encrypted messages. The last of them has not been solved in 30 years.
pjxA TIL that on December 24, 1968, the crew of Apollo 8 broadcast themselves reciting the first ten verses of the book of Genesis. The founder of American Atheists sued the US government for violation of the First Amendment, but the Supreme Court dismissed the case due to lack of jurisdiction.