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TIL It Rains Diamonds on Saturn and Jupiter

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94ym TIL the Georgia state legislature once debated the regulation of alligator rides, until someone pointed out that the bill called for regulating the sale of alligator hides.
R908 TIL that the prophet Muhammad married his third wife, Aisha, when she was 6 (or 7) years old and he was 53. Their marriage was consummated when she was 9 years old.
8vMa TIL Bill Nye “the science guy” got his break in entertainment by winning a steve martin lookalike contest.
wKo8 TIL that when director Harold Ramis was filming Groundhog Day he filmed every outdoor scene in every possible weather condition so that way when the film was being edited he could make sure the weather never changed during the single day Murray relives over and over again
rNXYM TIL Napoleon descended from Italians and was born in Corsica just one year after the Republic of Genoa ceded it to Louis XV of France.