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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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Rbxj TIL that diabetics’ urine can be made into whiskey because of the urine’s high sugar content
7gBX TIL that the eugenics movement of the United States, and the way it was enacted in California in particular, was a partial influence on the eugenics policies of Nazi Germany
78lNp TIL of Richard Stern, a German-Jewish WW1 veteran and subject of a famous photo, where he stands in the door of his shop wearing his old Iron Cross during the Nazi crackdown on Jewish businesses. Fleeing to the U.S., he joined the Army at age 43 to fight the Nazis. He was awarded a Silver Star
M7DX7 TIL in Mexico, alcohol sales are banned on election days, and sometimes several days before.
1nGd TIL: Gypsy is actually short for Egyptian.