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TIL Saturn’s moon Enceladus has liquid water geysers that may be ejecting huge numbers of microbes directly into space. It might be literally snowing life.

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YpQK7 TIL The 2-step initial pawn move is absent in Indian chess; thus, en passant is also absent. Normal castling with rook and king is absent. The king can make a knight's move once in a game, known as Indian castling. On reaching the opposite end of the board, pawns promote to the piece of that square.
0wpLy TIL that every tourist to the Kingdom of Bhutan must pay a daily fee of USD$250. This tax is to discourage large tour groups of "low-quality high impact tourists" that may damage Bhutan's fragile and unspoiled environment.
woZ7P TIL a Puget Sound orca called L25 is the oldest known living wild orca in the world. While her exact age is uncertain, she's estimated to be anywhere from her mid-80s to her mid-90s. In 1976 when the Center for Whale Research's census began, the original estimate for L25's birth year was 1928.
OGG71 TIL that just less than a century ago, astronomers weren't sure that the universe expanded beyond the Milky Way. Edwin Hubble (for whom the Hubble telescope was named) definitively proved the universe was far more vast.
P1keV TIL that the Suez Canal closed for eight years from 1967-1975, costing billions in trade