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TIL there's a crypto-currency called DOGECOIN. They even have a market cap of USD $60 million!

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wo8Do TIL that TON 618, 18.2 billion light years from Earth, is one of the largest black holes in the universe. The gas cloud that surrounds it has a diameter of at least 100 kiloparsecs(330,000 light-years), twice the size of the Milky Way.
544Q TIL while filming the movie disaster Ishtar, the animal trainer needed to find a blue-eyed camel. He found the perfect one at the first dealer but decided to shop around. Realizing how rare blue-eyed camels are, he returned to the first trader, who had since eaten the camel.
rVOW TIL Curly from the Three Stooges suffered from social anxiety, alcoholism, and took solace in befriending stray dogs.
VMlnm TIL On his second day in office, President Jimmy Carter pardoned all of the Vietnam War draft evaders.
awWKZ TIL in 2012 three anti-nuclear activists, including an 82-year-old nun, managed to break into an US government nuclear complex, paint anti-war slogans on the enriched uranium storage building, and spend several hours in the complex before being stopped by a lone guard.