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TIL Wu Tang Clan member Gza is a science nerd and has spoken at Harvard and hosted a Physics lecture at MIT

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5V0N8 TIL that Saturn's sixth-largest moon Enceladus is mostly covered by fresh, clean ice, making it the most reflective body in the Solar System. It shoots out water vapor, and other solid material totaling about 200 kilograms per second. Most of these materials supplies the making of Saturn's E ring.
QJx1L TIL Clyde Barrow of crime-duo Bonnie & Clyde was sentenced to a 14 year prison-sentence for auto theft in 1930. Two years into his sentence he decided to chop off two of his toes in order to get out of doing hard labor. Unbeknownst to him, he would be paroled six days later.
R7aQ TIL- there is a gang of women in India that go after abusive husbands and fight to stop child marriages.
dDJKj TIL if you're abroad and don't have the right adapter, you can charge your phone by plugging it into the USB port on the back or side of most modern TVs.
bk07 TIL Babies as young as 9 months know what makes a friend,new research suggests. A study conducted in January in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, shows that babies who are too young to talk still have a set of abstract expectations about the social world.