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TIL There are diamonds the size of Earth floating around in space.

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lOEG TIL a gamer once complained on the Runic Games forums that a specific camera effect made a game unplayable for her due to a rare eye condition. Mere hours later, and early on a Sunday morning, the developers released a patch that added a user toggle for the effect
69g4X TIL abou Fritz Haber, a Jewish German chemist who discovered the mass synthesis of Ammonia as fertilizer. He later aided Germany in WW1 by discovering Nitrogen explosives, weaponized Chlorine gas and early versions of Zyklone gas.
e0DLn TIL Bayer sold blood-clotting agents in the 80s infected with HIV to Asia and Latin America months after withdrawing them from Europe and the US for this very problem
VZLB TIL there’s a team of NASA scientists who’ve been pretending they’re on Mars for nearly a year. They live and work in a dome on the side of a Hawaiian volcano and only go out in spacesuits.
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