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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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Y7yEv TIL that the oldest archaeological evidence of copper mining and working was the discovery of a copper pendant in northern Iraq from 8,700 BCE.
dN88 TIL that in Slovakia they have Christmas Carp that live in the family bathtub for a few days before they are eaten.
MedQ8 TIL for a motorcycle stunt in 'No Time To Die', they had to pour 8400 gallons of Coca Cola onto a street of Italy to make the stunt possible. They did that to make the street less slippery and it cost over $70k.
R7ew9 TIL Harry Houdini was an aviation pioneer and the pilot of the first controlled, powered flight in Australia
mx6BE TIL that Mikhail Gorbachev was the only Soviet leader who was born when the Soviet Union already existed.