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TIL: Naturally Occurring Snow Donuts, Snowrollers, are a thing.

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PgrZ TIL Sony Pictures are working on a film adaption of Shadow of the Collosus.
R54V8 TIL That while Kmart in the US is all but dead, with only 1 traditional store remaining, Kmart Australia is wildly popular with nearly 300 locations.
9rJQ TIL British writer Norman Douglas’ last words were “Get those fucking nuns away from me.”
awknb TIL Buster Keaton was an international mega silent movie star, but broke down after sound movies took over. He became an alcoholic and was institutionalized in a mental ward but escaped his strait jacket using techniques he learned from Houdini. He then married his nurse but had no memory of it.
OWe4 TIL that comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 collided with Jupiter in 1994, after being broken apart from Jupiter’s tidal gravity. One fragment struck the planet’s surface with the estimated energy of 6 million megatons of TNT (600 times the world’s nuclear arsenal) and created a dark spot over 12,000 km across.