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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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x6vQ7 TIL Snoop Dog now owns Death Row Records, in a deal signed just before his Super Bowl LVI half time show in 2022. It was a sensational 90s hip hop label that released iconic albums by Dr Dre, Snoop Dog and 2Pac - and went through multiple owners like Hasbro and the Blackstone Group.
OG6G4 TIL Corporal Nand Singh earned the Victoria Cross in WW2. He captured 3 trenches, killing soldiers with his bayonet despite wounds. He earned another medal in 1947, capturing a bunker by killing enemy with his bayonet. The Pakistanis threw his body in a garbage dump, never to be recovered.
QRWM TIL Bill Gates once quoted “ “I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.”
nWeYG TIL: The 1904 fire in Baltimore was way worse then it had to be due to no industry standard for firefighting equipment at the time.
vRWK TIL that London Mayor Boris Johnson saved a woman from being assaulted by a group of teenagers. The woman later called him her “Knight on a shining bicycle.”