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TIL a park called Gruner See in Austria turns into a lake during the summer when the snow from the mountains melts and forms a body of water

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nePXr TIL that meal worms can break down plastics like Styrofoam and sadly "No attempts to commercialize this discovery have been made."
e0pJD TIL Russian Spetsnaz forces used an aerosolized fentanyl derivative to incapacitate Chechen separatists in the Moscow Theatre Hostage Crisis of 2002. About 130 of the 850 total hostages died partly due to the Russian government refusing to tell doctors what the chemical agent was.
BrxDd TIL that 97% of the galaxies in our observable Universe are permanently unreachable by humans. The Universe is expanding so rapidly that even if humans left earth today, travelling at the speed of light, they could only ever reach about 3% of the total number of galaxies in our observable Universe.
oKX7 TIL A Lab has developed odorless marijuana
BraBK TIL originally M&M's were supposed to be the candy in the movie E.T. but Mars rejected the idea; thus giving Reese's Pieces a spot in the movie, after which sales skyrocketed 300%