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TIL Romeo and Juliet Law in Utah has a 7-10 year gap. 😲
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TIL the James Webb Space Telescope has detected signs of potential life on exoplanet K2-18b.
l0Rr
TIL that Choco Pies are banned in North Korea because they were getting too popular, and Kim Jung-un feared they would cause an uprising. Because of this, South Korea packed many Choco Pies in balloons and sent them over the boarder to North Korea.
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TIL there is a mineral called “Cummingtonite” named after its place of discovery: Cummington, Massachusetts
XwLQ
TIL there is a butter flavoring that used to be used in microwavable popcorn that causes “popcorn lung,” a dangerous and potentially fatal lung disease. Major popcorn companies only just began disusing the chemical in 2007.
gMXL9
TIL that if a tail shed by a lizard as a decoy was not eaten by the chasing predator (and the lizard gets away too) the lizard would return to eat its own tail. Turns out the shed tail is a great source of fat to regain the energy lost in its getaway.