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TIL: NASA may have discovered clouds on exoplanet GJ 1214 b. There is a chance it might be an ocean planet.

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l78EV TIL about Archie Karas, a Greek gambler who turned $50 into $40 million in 3 years playing poker in Las Vegas before losing it all
nROG TIL that Harlan Ellison wrote the Hugo Award winning short story “I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream” in a single night. He made no changes to the first draft.
Brw7k TIL that Aladdin is set in China.
BMyL TIL Magne Furuholmen lost his father at age 5 in a plane crash outside of Oslo. The event was witnessed by 9 year old Morten Harket, thirteen years before the two would meet and form the band a-ha.
wLP7J TIL that an Iraqi man slept through the invasion of his town after it was attacked by militants. He was the only person left behind the when the town was evacuated. He woke up, watched a movie and fiddled with his A/C, only noticing the takeover that evening. The militants left him alone.