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TIL the movie “Space Jam” is technically a sequel to a 1993 Nike commercial.

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xVD1k TIL of the Octopus Stinkhorn. The fungus erupts from the egg by forming into four to seven elongated slender arms. The arms unfold to reveal a pinkish-red interior covered with a dark-olive spore-containing gleba. In maturity it smells like putrid flesh.
QJaO6 TIL that most time and clock systems on computers will stop working at exactly 03:14:07 UTC on January 19 2038 because their time is stored as a 32-digit binary number which will become more than 32 digits when it reaches 3:14:07.
x6Ork TIL China only has one time zone
awW0J TIL that Disney renamed the film Moana to Oceania in Italy to avoid confusion with the celebrated Porn Star Moana Pozzi
Wk94Y TIL Death by black hole is called spaghettification. The tidal forces inside a black hole are so strong that they stretch your body into a long thin noodle of your composite atoms as you descend.