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TIL the largest funeral home and cemetery owner is a publicly traded company that made over $4 billion in revenue in 2022

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k79E TIL that Elizabeth II, the Queen of the United Kingdom, is also the Queen of Jamaica, Barbados, the Bahamas, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Belize, Antigua and Barbuda, and Saint Kitts and Nevis.
1OoO TIL Mohammed Hemly, an Egyptian doctor who lived in Nazi Berlin, saved the lives of a Jewish friend and her family by sheltering them in his cabin for 3 years. Years later the Isreali Government gave him an honorific title, but his next of kin rejected the honor, citing Egypt-Israel relations.
V9Q4 TIL a previously unknown species of beaked whale has been discovered in the northern Pacific. It’s black, 24 feet long, and has only been seen from dead animals that have washed up on the beach.
rNW8w TIL In 1769 Alexander Wilson used a Gregorian telescope, with a 26 inch focus and 112 power, to observe an extraordinary sunspot. He concluded that it was a vast excavation in the luminous matter of the Sun
awR1A Jupiter is made of mostly hydrogen and helium gas. So, trying to land on it would be like trying to land on a cloud here on Earth. There's no outer crust to break your fall on Jupiter. Just an endless stretch of atmosphere. The big question, then, is: Could you fall through one end of Jupiter and out the other? It turns out, you wouldn't even make it halfway.