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TIL that Metallic Hydrogen will propel explorers to the outer planets, and create superconducting electrical grids.

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6AWw TIL: The Japanese developed an electric car in 1949 that could travel 200km on a single charge.
0wo0M TIL of former Congressman Leo Ryan (D), who was assassinated in the events leading up to the Jonestown Massacare
pBLG TIL that many films/TV shows, including Gremlins, Desperate Housewives, The Munsters, Beethoven, Deep Impact, and Buffy The Vampire Slayer, as well as music videos by The Offspring and P. Diddy, were all filmed at the same backlot street set at Universal Studios Hollywood, using the same houses.
VMGdZ TIL Pink Floyd keyboardist Richard Wright was trained on trombone and saxophone, as well as being self-taught on guitar, piano and trumpet.
ArMn TIL there are giant clouds of alcohol floating in space. Near the constellation of Aquila, there’s a cloud 1000 times the diameter of our solar system with enough ethyl alcohol to fill 400 trillion trillion pints of beer. Every person would have to drink 300,000 pints each day for one billion years.