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TIL about a star called BPM 37093, also known as the "Crystal Star". Located 50 light-years away in the constellation Centaurus, it's essentially a giant diamond of 10 billion trillion trillion carats

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X4EE TIL that the phrase “when in Rome, do as the Romans do” comes from St. Ambrose who would switch his Milanese patterns of fasting to those of the Romans whenever he stayed in Rome.
MedGm TIL of Leon Czolgosz, an anarchist who assassinated President William McKinley on Sep. 6, 1901. He was executed seven weeks later by Edwin Davis, the first “state electrician” of New York.
aPVb TIL Apollo 12 commander Pete Conrad’s first word upon setting foot on the Moon was “Whoopee!” in order to win a $500 bet with an Italian journalist that NASA didn’t script astronaut declarations.
QjyM TIL Alec Baldwin offered to do the voice over of himself in Team America: World Police, despite that it was making fun of him, but was turned down.
wLKV6 TIL A convent of Mexican nuns, The Sisters of the Immaculate Health, is helping to save one of the world's most endangered and remarkable amphibians – The Axolotl, a creature of worldwide scientific interest, as they are able to regrow lost limbs and other body parts, which we hope to emulate.