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TIL: Enceladus, Saturn’s 6th moon, has a warm ocean at its southern pole with ongoing hydrothermal activity—the first ever discovered outside of Earth. This is the most life-friendly habitat ever discovered outside of Earth.

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OWXL TIL “Meals on Wheels People,” a Portland, Ore.-based service and one of the largest in the country, says it costs $2,500 annually to provide daily meals to a homebound senior, while cost of institutional care for a year in Oregon is around $60,000. Cost for one day in the hospital is around $2,271.
ROK1 TIL while sexual sadist serial killer Peter Kürten was in a guillotine, he said to a priest, “Tell me… after my head is chopped off, will I still be able to hear, at least for a moment, the sound of my own blood gushing from the stump of my neck? That would be the pleasure to end all pleasures.”
0d69M TIL Starbucks is named after the first mate of the Pequod in Herman Melville’s classic novel Moby-Dick
QNpd TIL In 1955 the US had a mach capable strategic bomber that could takeoff and land on water
wL7Z1 TIL that Stevie Nicks is the only woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame TWICE. Once for Fleetwood Mac and a second time for her solo career.