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TIL that it snows metal on Venus

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ZpdVR TIL that to "crack yourself up" came from the 17th century when people wore wigs and thick makeup to make their face white. When they laughed, it cracked.
OGlya TIL Melpomene and Thalia are the muses of comedy and tragedy. Their faces are the two depicted in the drama masks.
oeOo TIL Axl Rose’s original concept for the Sweet Child o’ Mine music video was to depict a drug trafficker carrying her child into a foreign country. It would then be revealed the child was dead and full of heroin.
x67Kw TIL auto brewery syndrome is a condition in which your body turns some food into alcohol.
16EpD TIL that quantum field theory predicts the energy density of empty space to be about 10⁸ GeV⁴. In 2015 it was measured to actually be about 2.5 × 10⁻⁴⁷ GeV⁴, which is smaller than predicted by 1 octodecillion percent. This has been called "the worst theoretical prediction in the history of physics".