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TIL that in the the Milky Way Galaxy alone, there are at least 25 billion places where life could exist.

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wLlkM TIL that 1 to 5 percent of children are afflicted with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome - in some Native American reservations it is 1 in 4
gMxdA TIL about MUPHREY'S law which states that any time you make a written response alluding to someone else's bad grammar/spelling, your post will also have mistakes
loP4a TIL of Dr. Norman Bethune, a Canadian who served as an army doctor in both the Spanish Civil War and Second Sino-Japanese War and invented the first mobile blood transfusion clinic. He is so beloved in China that his eulogy penned by Mao Zedong is required reading in Chinese textbooks.
yeoM TIL there was a man named Johnny Kennedy whose skin fell off at the slightest touch. Despite being in constant agony, he kept up a positive outlook. In his documentary, he made a joke that “Any bumps or excessive friction, such as constant wanking, doesn't go well with the condition”.
rNRo0 TIL that director Christopher Nolan's brother Matthew was alleged to be a contract killer who kidnapped and tortured an accountant to death in Costa Rica. While being held in a secure prison tower in Chicago, Matthew concocted an elaborate escape attempt using a razor, a harness, and a 31-foot rope.