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TIL helium is a finite resource and one of the few elements that escapes gravity and leaks away into space when released.

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N7jre TIL: Ironically, the doctrine of papal infallibility (the pope officially has singular absolute final say on matters of church doctrine) dates only to 1870, around the time when the papacy permanently lost all its remaining temporal political power.
JYkEm TIL: Echidna was a monster in Greek Mythology, half-woman and half-snake, she was the mother of Cerberus & the Sphinx
aeBZ TIL the reason so many crazy news articles begin with “A Florida man/woman…” is because the media have unrestricted access to Florida police reports.
v1G8j TIL that Christian Bale, who has a British accent, did all of his promotional interviews for Batman Begins in an American accent because he felt Batman was "such an American character" and he did not want audiences asking "What the hell is going on? Why do we have an English Batman?"
VM00G TIL about Christopher Knight, a man who lived for 27 years completely alone in the woods of Maine.