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TIL there is over 400000 pounds of man-made trash and debris on the moon, including 96 bags of urine, feces, and vomit

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e06g5 TIL that Champagne goes straight to your head because the Carbon Dioxide in the bubbles elevates the pressure in your stomach, forcing the alcohol to be absorbed at a much higher rate through the Stomach wall.
78OXZ TIL that in 1997, Julie Andrews underwent surgery to remove non-cancerous nodules from her throat, but emerged from the surgery with permanent damage that destroyed the purity of her singing and made her speaking voice raspy.
5Y1JB TIL that, while there have been reports of python snakes killing people since the early 20th century, the first documented case of a python eating a human happened in 2017.
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