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TIL the upper atmosphere of Saturn’s (and other gas giants presumably) poles are heated by the massive Auroras happening there!

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wGw1 TIL -> Sam Adams Sells a Bottle of Beer, Once a Year, Costing About $115 per Bottle Which Typically sells out in 2-4 hours of becoming available.
ANWvg TIL that scientists showed Panda Pornography videos to Panda to check the side effects of Viagra
RD5w TIL Saturn’s moon Enceladus has liquid water geysers that may be ejecting huge numbers of microbes directly into space. It might be literally snowing life.
oRMwW TIL in 1977, musician Jimmy Buffett was driving to Key West on the Seven Mile Bridge when the bridge got stuck in the open position causing a 3-hour delay to fix it. To kill time, he wrote the song "Margaritaville" while sitting on the hood of his car.
VkZ8 TIL Louis Armstrong smoked marijuana during the entire 45 years he blew his trumpet