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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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yQxoM TIL the human eye has its own microbiome.
pgYO TIL Mark Twain had a near fatal heart attack in 1898 after watching a belly dancer’s routine.
w6aJ TIL there are 29 states in the USA where it is legal to fire someone for being gay
R0nQ TIL that there’s a deep sea fish that takes advantage of the fact that fish can’t see red light, and illuminates its prey with a beam of red bioluminescence so it can hunt with an effectively invisible beam of light.
p8Yk8 TIL during the closing credits of the South Park episode 'Trapped in the Closet', all names were replaced with either "John Smith" or "Jane Smith". This was done to shield any of the production staff from potential lawsuits.