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TIL There’s a water reservoir in space that’s 100,000 times bigger than our sun with 140 trillion times more water than all of our oceans.

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J1KYB TIL About King Kahekili of Maui, and about how he Tatooed half his body black and nearly beat Kamehameha at Uniting the Hawaiian islands
kypB TIL due to Mahatma Gandhi’s assassination in 1948, the Nobel Committee refused to give the Nobel Peace Prize that year because there was “no suitable living candidate.” The Prize cannot be given to deceased candidates. That way Gandhi’s place on the list was silently but respectfully left open.
OJVY TIL that Phil Mickelson is actually right-handed in everything he does. He only golfs as a lefty because he would mirror his dad’s swing as a child.
DrLr TIL that in 2009 Canada passed the “Apology Act”, establishing that apologizing to someone after an incident cannot be used in court against the person who apologized to establish their guilt or liability.
x64y5 TIL the Apollo 11 astronauts couldn’t get life insurance (for some reason), so they signed autographs for their families to sell in case they didn’t return.