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TIL hydrogen cyanide, more commonly know as Zyklon B, has been detected in the interstellar medium (space) and in the atmospheres of red giants.

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OGEV7 TIL that The Official Register Of Color Names (ORCN) includes many colors including piss yellow
YDw7 TIL that if you get the proper paperwork filed out, you can have your dog listed as a “Emotional Support Animal” Allowing you to bring him/her on planes and allowing him/her to live with you even if your lodging prohibits dogs.
E1w6x TIL that when Helium is cooled close to absolute zero, it becomes a superfluid that flows without friction, and behaves in a similar manner to the event horizon of a black hole
80vG TIL Ray Bradbury, in an interview with the Paris Review, stated “You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do – and they don’t.”
GAQL5 TIL: Non volatile memory onboard the Apollo spacecraft were made by manually weaving copper wires between magnetic cores, bit by bit. Software had to be perfect because any revisions to code were impossible