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TIL it rains diamonds in Saturn & Jupiter
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TIL About Ned Kelly, An Australian Bandit. In His Last Stand, His Gang Donned Homemade Armor And Battled Police For Hours. The Last Of His Gang Standing, Kelly Walked into The Open, Firing While Bullets Ricocheted Off His Armor. Eventually, A Shotgun Knocked Him Over, Allowing For His Capture
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TIL corpses are used as navigation and landmarks on Mount Everest
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TIL some of James Doohan’s (Scotty the Engineer from the original Star Trek series) ashes are hidden in the floor of the International Space Station after being smuggled there in 1998.
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TIL that the PlayStation 2 continued to be produced until 2013, one of the longest lifespans of any video game console.
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TIL that the first vending machine was invented 2000 years ago in Roman Egypt and sold Holy Water. When the coin was deposited, it fell upon a pan attached to a lever which let some water flow out. A counterweight snapped the lever up and turned off the valve once the coin was tilted off the pan.