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TIL Astronomers discovered a planet which rains glass sideways, giving it a blue hue.

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yQpgl TIL those holes in the mortar around my brick home are called weep holes and a sign of good masonry work.
VMKeD TIL that during WW1, a Canadian soldier brought his pet bear to Britain. He named the bear Winnie after his home town Winnipeg an later donated the bear to the London Zoo where a boy named Christopher Robin liked it so much it inspired his father to write about it, thus Winnie the Pooh.
P1bZE TIL about Krystal Surles, a 10-year-old girl who survived getting her throat slit by serial killer Tommy Sells and was able to draw a sketch that allowed Sells to be identified and caught.
5OOk TIL - An apparently mentally ill Roman Catholic priest has regularly interrupted sporting events by running onto the track with signs about the impending apocalypse. He may have cost a Brazilian runner his Olympic Gold Medal. He was finally defrocked in 2005.
GAnVE TIL: In in 2017, A company in Denmark known as "DONG Energy" lost its mojo after transitioning its operations towards a greener agenda.