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TIL that rainfalls of diamonds have been suggested to occur within Saturn, as well as in Jupiter

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e0prb TIL Harold Ramis directed some episodes of The Office
loNor TIL: "Cloudbusting" was a term coined by psychoanalyst wilhelm reich to describe manipulation of "orgone energy" to change the weather, through a specially designed machine. The term was later used as the subject and title of Katie Bush's single 1985 single, Cloudbusting.
Lkwo0 TIL of Worker Policing. A brutal regulatory system in hives by which female workers will attach their queen and eat her sons if there are too many compared to their own sons, and sometimes will eat their own if the Queen's eggs are too few.
GAMV1 TIL it’s impossible to make soft shell turtle eggs sunny side up. The egg white protein doesn’t coagulate with heat.
W7yON TIL Pelagic birds can drink seawater: glands beneath their eyes draw out excess sodium and secrete a highly concentrated salt solution through the nose