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TIL That it rains diamonds on gaseous planets like Neptune and Uranus. They contain methane that at high pressures and temperatures, turn into diamonds which then fall to the center of the planet.

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BgJyk TIL about Marina Abramović's 1974 performance piece Rhythm 0. She stood still for six hours and allowed the audience to use her body without consequences. They could use any of 72 objects on her, from harmless to dangerous ones. The interactions started gentle but quickly escalated into violence.
8GyG TIL that by 2008, Top Gear had gotten so popular that the waiting list for tickets for a recording had more than 300,000 names. Or 21 years worth of episodes
7r9lp TIL studies have determined that the closing of the nuclear power plants in Japan has actually caused more deaths than the Fukushima accident itself.
GYMO5 TIL that a group of Black-capped Chickadees is called a banditry of chickadees, referring to the mask-like appearance of the species.
Y7M4r TIL The small intestine is four times the length of a human being if its torsions were untwisted.