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TIL There is evidence of seas of liquid diamond on Neptune.

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wPX6 TIL in 1953, a North Korean fighter pilot defected to South Korea with his MiG-15 and was rewarded $100,000 from the United States.
a8OwA TIL the term "skunkworks" does not mean what I thought it meant. It does NOT mean a project with no upper management support, but rather it's when a small team, seaparate team is formed to develop a particular thing. The team itself is usually well funded but outside organisational bureaucracy.
O5j7 TIL that steam pianos used to exist, and they could be audible for miles.
OXxe TIL the Grinch laments that he has had to put up with the Whos’ celebration of Christmas for 53 years. Dr. Seuss was 53 when he wrote the book and he also drove a car with a license plate that read “GRINCH”.
VMGEB TIL before working on the Donald Duck comics and creating Scrooge McDuck. Carl Barks began his career at a racy man's magazine "Calagary Eye Opener" in the early 1920s. After retiring, he made tons of erotic artwork showing people with duck bills he jokingly referred to as the "Duck Syndrome".