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TIL Nuclear Winter is almost impossible because houses are no longer built from paper and whole cities don't burn up.

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pRlO TIL Your body is constantly replacing old cells with new ones at the rate of millions per second. By the time you finish reading this sentence, 50 million of your cells will have died and been replaced by others.
X85D TIL Fifteen years ago, an amateur astronomer discovered an asteroid that turned out to be part of an Apollo rocket that disappeared 30 years earlier.
QJWXL TIL that that Hitler and all his cronies paraded around in Mercedes Benz cars ignorant of the fact that they were named after a Jewish girl: Mercedes Jellinek
KYonJ TIL the US Department of Agriculture published guidance on how to dispose of horses with explosives [PDF]
p8yZN TIL a man spent two years, planting thousands of flowers, to help bring his blind wife out of depression