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TIL that Jupiter’s atmosphere is so dense and pressurized that a human falling into it would be crushed before ever reaching a solid surface — because it may not even have one.

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yQGwa TIL M&M's are named after it's founder's Mars & Murrie
WWvL TIL it’s a complete coincidence that the word “emoji” resembles “emotion”. It simply comes from the Japanese words e (“picture”) and moji (“character”).
JYLPQ TIL although Benjamin Franklin never tried to get the turkey as the national bird, he did think eagles were bad moral creatures and that turkeys were much more respectable.
awEy0 TIL When legendary artist Salvador Dali went to a screening of a new surrealist art film in 1936 he became enraged and knocked over the projector half thru claiming the film maker had stolen the idea for the film from Dali's mind. He yelled: "He stole it from my subconscious!"