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TIL the original episode of South Park was the first and only episode to use cardboard cutouts

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VMJRD TIL that in the the Milky Way Galaxy alone, there are at least 25 billion places where life could exist.
6E7W TIL: Irena Sendler, a woman who saved 2,500 Polish Jews from the Holocaust was beat out for a Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 for Al Gore and global warming.
0MxL TIL that a protein called TRPM8 is what causes your brain to think something is colder than it is after eating something with mint.
Oo8A4 TIL of ball lightning. Not taken seriously by scientists until the 60s , it is said to be a ball of light seen during a thunderstorm that appear to move on their own. it is a rare and unexplained phenomenon and has only recently been studied by scientists.
9wLWG TIL Between 1873 and 1880, the idea of transfusing milk into the body as a substitute for blood, in cases of emergency bleeding was tested across the United States. The results (some successful) were published in medical journals but eventually the practice was seen as too risky and was stopped.