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TIL volcanic eruptions are constantly ongoing on Jupiter's moon Io, probably because it is constantly being ripped apart by Jupiter's massive gravity

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ZpKka TIL Larry Bird Once Played A Game Mostly With His Left Hand Because He Wanted to Save His Right for the Next Game Against the Lakers.
v1oEK TIL that during the 1962 missile crisis, the all-out nuclear war was prevented by a single man: Vasily Arkhipov
1a8bd TIL over 36,000 people a year die in the US alone from car accidents
X98X TIL the UK still retains 18 Queen’s Messengers, who hand deliver secret documents to British embassies worldwide, travelling undercover in business class. The diplomatic package has its own “passport”, as though it’s a human being, and is exempt from being searched or x-rayed by airport security.
mvop TIL that every human’s DNA is 99.9% the same, and that the last 0.01% is enough to identify different DNA sequences (and tell what DNA belongs to who)