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TIL that Saturn’s moon, Enceladus, has water geysers that shoot into space only to fall back as snow on the moon’s surface

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oler TIL That there are plots in porn because it used to be illegal to make pornography without plots in the 90s under the obscenity law
b9We0 TIL In 1940s, Pepsi saw African Americans as an untapped niche market. Pepsi adverts portrayed them in a positive light - in a time with racial segregation. Pepsi faced threats from KKK. Their market share increased by 1950s. African Americans were 3 times more likely to buy Pepsi than Coca Cola.
DwoV TIL: The human brain has a memory capacity of approximately 2.5 petabytes (or 2.5 million gigabytes)
4kyka TIL about Myotragus, an extinct dwarf goat with a small brain and small, forward-facing eyes, with a reptile-like metabolism which helped it to survive on a resource-scarce Mediterranean island.
R5kdQ TIL: When women enter a traditionally male dominated occupation, average male wage drops by 8%, women's by 7%