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TIL it snows metal on Venus

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b9LdQ TIL Martin Pistorius, a man who woke up from a 12 year coma during which he remembered everything that happened around him.
XpAP TIL there are more public libraries than McDonald’s in the U.S.
O4d6 TIL there is a place called Christmas Island that has millions of red crabs hatch and march across the island.
Z8NoD TIL The founders of Samsung and LG, Lee and Koo, were close friends since elementary school. In 1968, Lee met Koo and told him that Samsung was planning to enter electronics, which meant becoming LG's direct competitor. Angered, Koo yelled at him and left. Afterwards, the two were never close again.
grYly TIL that the infamous MACV-SOG’s first casualty was Larry Thorne, a Finnish-born officer who served as a captain in the Finnish Army and the Waffen-SS. After WWII, he moved to the US and joined the Army, and died in a helicopter crash on SOG’s first mission. He was buried in Arlington in 2003.