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TIL there is a mass reservoir of water floating in space that is 100,000 times bigger than our sun and holds 140 trillion times more water than all of our oceans.

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p8aX8 TIL that Dan Shechtman was shamed for his ideas on quasicrystals. A Nobel laureate commented that 'there is no such thing as quasicrystals, only quasi-scientists'. In 2011 Dan Schechtman was awarded the Nobel Prize for the discovery of quasicrystals.
gMxeA TIL: DeepMind's AlphaStar AI is now a full-blown StarCraft 2 Grandmaster and better than 99.8 percent of players on Battle.net, 'under professionally approved conditions.'
BrlAe TIL that C.S. Lewis died on the same day as the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, resulting in Lewis's death being overshadowed by Kennedy's.
b9vQ9 TIL In 1918, there was an outbreak of the 'Spanish Flu'. This was during WW1 and many countries had limits on what the press could write about, except Spain who was neutral. Thus, more reports came out about the flu from Spain causing people to think it was just happening there.
aw0NM TIL Iran isn't the name of a government entity. It's simply how the Persian people say the name of their country in Farsi (Iran's Official language) "Iran" is Farsi for "Persia" (Greek form) and they simply wanted people to stop using the Greek form.