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TIL There is a water reservoir floating in space that is equivalent to 140 trillion times all the water in the world's ocean.

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lLOG TIL The prestigious Michelin Star, an award that the worlds best chefs work their lives to attain, is awarded by Michelin Tires. For over 100 years, it’s all been part of an advertising campaign to sell tires.
OGnm4 Today I learned that in 1634 Massachussets Puritans made long hair illegal for males.
awGEN TIL that the seventh most populous city in the world, Mumbai, also has one of the highest densities of leopards (41 leopards) in a forest inside the city and the leopard population saves Mumbai US$18,000 by keeping the stray dogs population in check.
4bAR TIL In Spartan society the only people granted marked headstones were warriors who died in battle and women who died in childbirth
gM698 Today I learned of skydiver Joan Murray who crash landed on a fire ant mound at 80 MPH because her chutes failed to deploy and survived because because of the fire ants' sting caused a surge of adrenaline which kept her heart beating.