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TIL the Moon has at least a partly molten core, discovered through the seismic analysis of moonquakes.

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DQPPV TIL that scientists have discovered a tiny parasitic wasp that turns spiders into zombie bodyguards. This wasp, known as Dicopomorpha echmepterygis, injects its eggs into a spider, which then continues to perform its regular tasks but ultimately sacrifices itself to protect the developing wasps.
9YJ9D TIL, during the Communist Chinese purges, in Guangxi, residents ate, tortured, and butchered each other. Someone was blown to bits just for fun!
4XmpJ TIL In 2012 a staute of Jesus in India started to drip water mysteriously from its toes. Locale worshippers[Hindu+Muslim+Christian] started to collect that water and some even drank it. The source of water was later found to be a faulty sewage system.
OG45Y TIL That is was believed that Tiny Tim had rickets, tuberculosis (TB), polio, and/or cerebral palsy
R79J9 TIL Computer hacker Kevin Mitnick was forced to spend 8 months of his prison sentence in solitary confinement because officials believed he could use a payphone to start nuclear war by whistling to NORAD modems.