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TIL that “Jupiter is the solar system’s vacuum cleaner, pulling in meteors and comets. Scientists estimate that if it was not for this amazing fact, the number of these objects hitting earth would be about ten thousand times greater.”

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kJ6n1 TIL in 2020, 9 states and 2 U.S. territories had prohibitions on smoking in cars with children. The age threshold varied by jurisdiction ranging from under age 8 in Vermont to under age 18 in California. Penalties also varied by state and territory.
b6Bx9 TIL Tom Lehrer, Musical satirist, educator, and mathematician, made all of his music available as part of the public domain at the age of 92
loXN5 TIL of Olivia Farnsworth. Olivia is 7 years old, doesn’t feel pain, and never feels tired or hungry. This is because a rare chromosome condition. One day she was hit by car and dragged down the street about 100 feet. Olivia walked away with only minor injuries.
OoOQ1 TIL Founded in 1898, the focus for Belgium's Royal Museum for Central Africa has shifted from the degradation the Congolese people faced under Belgian rule to an anthropological celebration and a space for contemporary African art. After a $84 million facelift, it became the AfricaMuseum in 2018
9lNM TIL ‘The Bloop’, a loud and ultra-low frequency sound picked up by the NOAA in 1997 and heard at listening stations underwater over 5,000km apart, was not a “sea monster” but the sound of an ice shelf breaking off of Antarctica – an icequake.