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TIL there is roughly as much vitamin C in one ounce of narwhal skin as there is in one ounce of oranges.

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V97Z TIL the average cloud weighs about 1.1 Million pounds
WkaeN TIL: China is banned from the International Space Station (ISS)
woYaP TIL that a blouse with a bow tied at the neck is called a lavallière, a name associated with the Duchess of La Vallière who was the first mistress of Louis XIV. It is also known as a Pussybow Blouse, because it resembles a bow on a pussy cat’s neck.
d8er9 TIL Nigerians smoke the most marijuana on earth, spending over $15 billion on marijuana annually.
ndA7 TIL of an exoplanet known as J1407; a planet with a ring system so huge, it is 200x larger than Saturn’s. If it took the place of Saturn in our solar system, it’s rings would be brighter and more prominent than the moon in the Earth’s sky.