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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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5YKRP TIL Alberta Canada is the largest inhabited land mass that has no rat population. Every territory surrounding it has rats, but high rat control efforts have kept them out.
gMdlW TIL After WWII, homosexuals were forced to serve out their terms of imprisonment, regardless of the time spent in concentration camps
KnpB TIL of Misophonia, a disorder which means sufferers have a hatred of sounds such as eating, chewing, loud breathing or even repeated pen-clicking.
MKkW TIL the phrases “1st world, 2nd world, & 3rd world” do not represent wealth, but rather represent economic and political systems. First world being capitalism, second world being socialism, and third world being neutral/non-aligned.
6EjgQ TIL that when trains were first introduced in the U.S, many people believed that, "women's bodies were not meant to go at 50 miles an hour" and that their "uteruses would fly out of [their] bodies if they were accelerated to that speed"