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TIL the largest moon in our solar system, Ganymede, is larger than the planet of Mercury

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yZ8X TIL the only reason to add salt to water for cooking pasta is to add flavor. It would take 15 tablespoons of salt to raise the boiling temperature of 1L of water by 2 degrees.
VKa0 TIL in 1924, the first Olympic Winter Games, Canada scored 132 goals and let in 3 in the entire ice hockey competition.
lOmK TIL that 90% of Mozilla’s revenue comes from a contract with Google to be Firefox’s default search engine
bvmQ TIL the developer of “The New Tetris” on N64 left an epic rant hidden in the code which he thought wouldn’t be discovered for years, but was uncovered after 3 days
Jp0B TIL an Australian doctor named Dr Jack Barnes stung himself, his nine year old son, and a local lifeguard with the Irukandji jellyfish to prove it was the then-unknown cause of Irukandji Syndrome. All three developed the syndrome, and the jellyfish was named Carukia barnesi after him.