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TIL Ontario, Canada has a native Lizard called the Five-Lined Skink.

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ArMn TIL there are giant clouds of alcohol floating in space. Near the constellation of Aquila, there’s a cloud 1000 times the diameter of our solar system with enough ethyl alcohol to fill 400 trillion trillion pints of beer. Every person would have to drink 300,000 pints each day for one billion years.
a8ooM TIL that Microsoft's longest-running software product line is actually Microsoft Flight Simulator, predating Windows by three years.
Z8bPB TIL That the painting "The Concert" by Johannes Vermee, stolen in 1990 during the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Theft, is still considered by many experts to be the most expensive object ever stolen. It was valued at 250 million dollars in 2015.
78VZX TIL a lactating Virgin Mary supposedly reanimated and shot her milk across a room and into a man's mouth or eyes. There are multiple holy paintings of that "miracle."
p8vnN TIL there is an area in France that people are still not allowed into over 100 years after the Battle of Verdun.