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TIL Ronald Reagan appointed the first female supreme Court justice as promised in his campaign - Sandra Day O'Connor

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gr97A TIL that Loma Linda, CA is one of the five "Blue Zones", or areas in which people tend to live to 100 years old. This is generally believed to be because many of the residents are Seventh Day Adventists, who eat mostly plant based diets, get a lot of exercise, and drink mostly water.
woYQ1 TIL dogs can be blood donors
ADKLn TIL Father of US Navy Admiral John Paul Jones fouhgt his last naval battles in the area of present-day Ukraine
Mel87 TIL that the most mass a planet can have is ~10-13x the mass of Jupiter. After this point, it's own sheer gravity begins to cause nuclear fusion and the body is classified as a brown dwarf (also called a failed star).
yxEM TIL a black hole 12 billion light years away holds at least 140 trillion times the water in all of Earth’s oceans combined, making it the largest known reservoir of water