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TIL that it rains diamonds on Uranus

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6E4M8 TIL natural nuclear fission reactors were discovered in Gabon, Africa. They operated for a few hundred thousand years and generated an average of 100kW of power.
grAn9 TIL LBJ had two dogs die at the White House: Her swallowed a stone, and Him was hit by a car.
OGlwa TIL about Edgardo Mortara a jewish boy who was secretly baptized by a catholic servant. After the church learned what happened he was removed from his family.
Z8yyB TIL that one of the earliest uses for the term Round Robin was a document signed by multiple parties in a circle to make it more difficult to determine the order in which it was signed, thus preventing a ringleader from being identified, a mutiny on a ship for example.
l7ZY5 TIL bout Yasuke, Japan's first Black samurai, who served under the legendary warlord Oda Nobunaga in the 16th century.