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TIL the Galileo mission may have accidentally triggered a nuclear explosion on Jupiter

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A9Rw TIL there was a vinyl record format that could play videos: the Capacitance Electronic Disc.
QJvBk TIL in the 19th century, profit-maximizing recipe used by milk producers was a pint of lukewarm water for every quart of milk—after the cream was skimmed; To whiten the bluish liquid they added chalk and to replace skimmed-off layer of cream, they might add a final flourish of pureed calf brains
0we5j TIL: The world's largest hour-glass contains one tonne of sand and it takes a year for all the sand to drain from the top to the bottom.
yeya TIL Uruguay’s president lives in a farm-house with no servants. Has two security guards. Donates 90 percent of his salary, has a net worth of $1,800, and drives a 1987 VW Beetle. He has sold the seaside presidential palaces, advocates for legalizing marijuana, and same-sex marriage.
Mm5b TIL a group of nuns disfigured themselves to protect their chastity from a group of raiding Vikings. When the raiders discovered the nuns they were so disgusted that they locked them in the monastery and burned it down. This event helped coin the phrase “Cutting your nose of to spite your face.”