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TIL there is a white dwarf located 50 light years away from Earth, whose solidified interior is a 10 billion trillion trillion carat diamond.

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5YP89 TIL Casey Anthony had “fool-proof suffocation methods” in her Firefox search history from the day before her daughter died. Police overlooked this evidence, because they only checked the history in Internet Explorer.
e0dXb TIL Thanks to a Swedish tax law regarding costumes, ABBA’s stage clothes were outlandishly-designed on purpose. As long as they were impractical for everyday wear, the group’s outfits were tax-deductible.
x7BB TIL there is a form of Kryptonite, known as Pink kryptonite, that can turn Superman gay.
ynYe TIL that in the Battle of Asal Uttar (1965 Indo-Pakistan war), the Indian army let the Pakistan army think they had retreated, and then flooded the sugarcane fields they camping in overnight, causing the Pakistan tanks sink into the mud. The Pakistan army lost 100 tanks against India’s 10.
ADrGw Listen up: Those DIY face masks you see people sewing and selling online are, unfortunately, ineffective at preventing the coronavirus. ????