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TIL that an award winning middle schoolers science project showed that on average 70% of the time ice from fast food restraunts is dirtier than toilet water

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MdOa TIL Jordan Peele’s “Get Out” made $252.4 million at the worldwide box office, over 55 times more than its production budget of $4.5 million.
QJ1g9 TIL Xenon is such an expensive gas that when it's used for anaesthesia, recycling systems are used to recycle the used xenon for future use.
6ER5X TIL male show dogs can't be fixed and a judge needs to feel his testicles to make sure they're present and are equal size. A male dog failing to show a healthy pair of testicles will be disqualified. Sometimes a dog's testicles retract during inspection and its handler must coax them back down.
ANLr4 TIL that a star 3000 light years away is about to reignite in an explosion so massive that it'll shine as bright as the North Star. This nova event won't happen again for another 80 years!
9wPP7 TIL that as late as 1987, doctors were routinely performing surgery on babies without anaesthesia.