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TIL hydrogen in Saturn gets so dense toward the core that it turns into a metal.

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EEjW TIL there are 30 foot wide abandoned tunnels behind Niagara Falls
awdmN TIL: Patch Adams only agreed to the 1999 film of his namesake because they promised to help build his hospital. None of the profits from the film was ever given to his foundation, and the film was heavily criticised by Patch Adams himself, saying: "I hate that movie."
Egod TIL that in the United States, having child pornography often results in a harsher sentence than actually molesting a child would
N7NwE TIL about terminal lucidity, a phenomenon in which patients with degenerated brains from neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's suddenly regain lucidity, personality and memory before death. There is no known medical explanation for this phenomenon.
dDy8B TIL that the chainsaw was created in the 18th century and was originally designed as a medical device and more precisely (debated) to cut open womens' pelvises for childbirth.