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TIL that Rose from the movie Titanic was only 17 years old.

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5K5k TIL a company named LifeStylePets sold a new exclusive cat breed for $100,000 but a DNA-test proved they were reselling cheaper cats for extreme amounts
OobW7 TIL the first ever vsauce video was a shitpost about E3 2011
jNnJM TIL of the sunk cost fallacy. It is the general tendency for people to continue an endeavor, or continue consuming or pursuing an option, if they’ve invested time or money or some resource in it, which becomes a fallacy if it’s pushing you to do things that are making you unhappy or worse off.
Z8aOR They're smaller, but they're much safer.
wDrJ TIL Jupiter is a “cosmic vacuum cleaner.” Its gravitational influence causes comets and asteroids to collide with it. The rate of impacts on Jupiter is about 2000-8000X higher than the rate on Earth. Without Jupiter, the probability of asteroid impacts with the inner planets would be much greater.