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TIL that the solar system is currently traveling through an interstellar cloud that is as hot as the surface of the sun and 30 light years long.

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ep0OL TIL Wall Street organizations uses a stock-buying routing method called Payment for Order Flow (PFoF) that's banned in Canada, U.K., and Australia - due to a high potential for fraud and manipulation.
9YRL6 TIL in the state of Vermont, some homes have diagonal windows named "witch's windows", which are nearly exclusive to homes in that state
Y76PG TIL that in 1971, a man survived an accidental skydiving fall from 10,000 feet after his parachute failed to open, landing in snow and walking away with minor injuries.
YpAMA TIL that the closest living relative of all whales is the hippopotamus. Whales evolved from a terrestrial(land) animal, this is the reason whales can't breathe under water like fishes and need to come up for air. They literally evolved backwards, but in the process have the become the largest mammal
VBnEm TIL about "Edison's Conquest of Mars" - an 1898 novel where Thomas Edison kicked alien ass in an unauthorized sequel to "The War of the Worlds." Among its MANY sci-fi inventions: First use of spacesuits, alien abductions, space wars, asteroid mining, and aliens building the Pyramids.