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TIL There is a storm on Jupiter big enough to swallow the earth

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wa0E TIL Mother Teresa encouraged members of her order to secretly baptise dying patients, many of whom were Hindus and Muslims
X4ar TIL that the first canadian Prime Minister, Sir John A. Macdonald, appeared so drunk during a debate that he threw up, he then said “I get sick sometimes not because of drink or any other cause, except that I am forced to listen to the ranting of my honourable opponent.”
Z8K5B TIL that the first European scientists to examine a Platypus body thought that it was fake, believing it was made of several other animal pieced together
6El87 TIL about the windshield phenomenon, the observation that since the early 2000s people often no longer have to clean a bunch of insects off the windshields of their cars after a long drive. It has been attributed to a global decline in insect populations because of human impact on their ecosystem.
m1YeM TIL There is a language called Esperanto that was intended to be a universal second language for international communication.