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TIL Cuteness inspires aggression which is why we often want to squeeze things we find cute. it’s called “cute aggression”.

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yxNp TIL: A quarter of the world’s hazelnut supply is used to make Nutella
lBlA TIL in 1992, Polish-Irish businessman Stefan Klincewicz beat the lottery and made a profit by buying all possible number combinations when the jackpot became high enough to profit. The game was changed soon after.
d8Agj TIL that in 2015 a huge 2100 foot (640 meters) wide human skull-faced asteroid, nicknamed the “Halloween Asteroid”, zoomed past Earth on Halloween. It completes one rotation every 2.94 hours, and will be seen again in November this year.
Me8e8 TIL the sun takes up over 99.8% of all the mass in our solar system.
NapP TIL a British soldier managed to get a longbow kill during WW2, the only recorded one during the war as well as the most recent one.