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TIL there are giant hornets in Japan whose venom is potent enough to melt human flesh

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RGn4 TIL that the US exports to Antarctica are worth 6.51 Million dollars and imports are worth 168 thousand dollars.
YYXZ TIL That Ace and Gary from the Ambiguously Gay Duo on SNL, is voiced by Stephen Colbert and Steve Carell.
ep6DL TIL Earth has 7 Quasi-Satellites. Quasi-Satellites are like Satellites (Moon), but their orbits lie outside the planet's Hill sphere, a region in which it dominates the attraction of satellites.
gM6p8 TIL the founder of the KKK, a Confederate cavalry general, later ordered the klan to disband and called for racial harmony between whites and blacks
wQZ6 TIL During the “Red Terror” of 1918, Communist secret police in Orel “poured water on naked prisoners bound in the winter streets until they became living ice statues.” In Ukraine, they “rolled people around in barrels studded internally with nails.” Upwards of 1 million people died.