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TIL that the sun will transform into a red giant in a few billion years and expand to 256 times it's size. Mercury, Venus and Earth will get engulfed and the habitable zone will be pushed well into the Kuiper Belt. A host of new moons are expected to become suitable for the existence of life.

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16Mj4 TIL about "fridging," a term coined by Gail Simone in 1999 after Green Lantern Vol. 3 #54, where Kyle Rayner finds his girlfriend murdered and stuffed in a fridge. The term highlights how female characters in comics are disproportionately harmed or killed for advancing the male protagonist's story.
ZyaY TIL Carmex contains a drying agent (salicylic acid, the same stuff used to dry up acne) which may actaully make your lips more dry and cause a purpetual cycle of product use.
QNXwe TIL about the 1944-54 Kirov wolf attacks. Due to the need of hunters and rifles for WW2, man-eating wolf packs in Russian Kirov region lost their fear of humans, advanced into towns and villages in broad daylight, hunting mainly children and teenagers, killing 22.
6mQ7 TIL the world’s largest jellyfish – the lion’s mane – is longer than a blue whale.
4XwQg TIL that in 1964, Elvis Presley bought President Franklin D Roosevelt's yacht, USS Potomac (AG-25) for $55,000. He later gave it to St Jude's Children Hospital for a fundraiser, and that hospital sold it for $65,000.