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TIL It Rains Diamonds on Saturn and Jupiter

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95V7 TIL Mordor in LOTR is named after the old English word for ‘Murder’.
rRMKW TIL that 80,000 people or 5% of the population of Bali was executed during the massacres of suspected communists in Indonesia in 1965-66, many on those white sand beaches.
x6vk7 TIL the first transatlantic telegraph cable was completed in 1858 and it took 2 minutes for a single character to make the journey, the first full message from Queen Victoria taking almost 18 hours to complete.
D1lEp TIL of the sea pangolin, a deep-sea snail that lives in hydrothermal vents 1.5 miles underwater with crushing pressures and temperatures up to 750 degrees Fahrenheit. To survive, it has an outer armoured shell made of iron sulfide - the only known extant animal to have this property.
KOYLQ TIL that between 1990 and 2005, China’s fight against poverty accounted for more than three-quarters of global poverty reduction and helped the world reached the UN millennium development goal of halving extreme poverty.