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TIL… that on Saturn and Jupiter it literally rains diamonds

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k6WW TIL there is a fictional brand of cigarettes that multiple TV shows, films, and video games use called Morleys.
xV6no TIL the Statue of Liberty's torch has been closed to the public since July 30, 1916 when it sustained structural damage from the Black Tom explosion - an act of German sabotage targeting a US munitions depot during WWI
16xMV TIL that one man has single-handedly mapped over 90% of the River Thames.
m1w6R TIL Why the Can Opener Wasn’t Invented Until Almost 50 Years After the Can
lo0WV TIL about the HMS "Black Joke" a brazillion slave ship that was captured by British Admiralty and repurposed to hunt slave ships. Over it's five year career it is believed to have freed hundreds of slaves after its renaming from "Henriquetta"