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TIL It Rains Diamonds on Saturn and Jupiter

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4kdW5 TIL: 528 atmospheric nuclear tests have been conducted worldwide between 1945 and 1996.
WX1A TIL people who constantly bite the skin around their fingernails or on the inside of their cheeks suffer from dermatophagia, an impulse control disorder linked to anxiety and obsession
o7Z8 TIL when the liver fails to produce bile your poop doesn’t get the regular brown pigments so it becomes white
VnkB TIL Betteridge’s law states, “Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.”
Wklmd TIL about South African Fritz Joubert Duquesne: Anglo Boer war soldier, spy for Germany in WW 1 and 2, adviser on big game hunting to U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, US citizen, British soldier, journalist, fake Australian war hero and head of the New Food Society in New York, and it goes on.