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TIL that Earth once had rings like Saturn.

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5VGQ8 TIL that scientists have created a new form of ice called "superionic ice" that exists as both solid and liquid at the same time
5YyX9 TIL that the US government only decided to give citizenship to Native Americans in 1924.
W7O5L TIL Catholic and Coptic Orthodox people claim to have seen the Virgin Mary (the so-called “Marian apparitions”), the first in 40 AD in Zaragoza (Spain) and the most recent in 2009 in Warraq, Egypt. These apparitions have even taken place in countries where Christianity is not the dominant religion,
0wW55 TIL that a New York Judge in 2017 jailed 46 people when a cell phone rang in Court and no one took responsibility
KYKPB TIL that during the inter-war era, it was the British and not the Germans, who were the world leaders in tank design and the organisation of armoured forces.