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TIL - NASA posted sounds made in space near different planets in 2007. They have been appropriately named “Spooky Space Sounds.” You can listen here.

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Vyok TIL Internet cables that cross the Atlantic Ocean on the sea bed are only as thick as a Magic Marker Pen in deep seas. Sharks like chewing these cables though it’s not known why. Sharks can sense electromagnetic fields so they may be attracted to the current.
oGZW TIL there is a crab that grows to be bigger than a human being. It’s called… Japanese Spider Crab
QNLp TIL that a 100-year-old turtle’s organs are indistinguishable from those of an adolescent turtle
R7wwj TIL politician Stacey Abrams writes romance novels under the pen name Selena Montogomery, and has sold 100,000 copies.
Z8DYa TIL Hitler used a propaganda technique called the "Big lie". The use of a lie so "colossal" that no one would believe that someone "could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously"