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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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Z9xQ TIL that Dan Schneider, the weird manager in Nickelodeon’s Good Burger, created and wrote Victorious, iCarly, The Amanda Show, Drake & Josh, and What I Like About You, making him the most successful writer/tv executive in Children’s Entertainment Television for the last thirty years.
ANAbd TIL: The NBA began the 2006 season using a microfiber composite ball designed to eliminate the need for a "breaking-in" period. Players hated it, and some said it caused paper-cut-like slashes on their hands. The NBA returned to leather balls less than two months into the season.
X0gEP TIL that democracy isn't uniquely a human thing, since many other social animals have been known to implement it
4XA7w TIL transgender/LGBT rights in Thailand are extremely advanced. Due to Thailand being 94% buddhist, which believes that you only occupy a body in this life, so your spirit is different. So if you're born a man but feel a woman, there's more societal acceptance that the body is wrong not the mind.
PYypJ TIL in 2011, a 13 year old Norwegian boy encountered a pack of wolves while walking back alonefrom school. He managed to fend them off by removing his headphones and blasting the song "Overcome", by Creed on full volume