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TIL a supernova occurs roughly every 10 seconds in the observable universe

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aPNo TIL: Chris Hadfield says every astronaut on the International Space Station has deposited urine on the right rear tire of the vehicle taking them to the rocket, as a tribute to Yuri Gagarin doing the same on his first trip into space.
PY4mL TIL Carl Wieman, recipient of the 2001 Nobel in Physics, delivered a lecture outlining how he created a new state of matter called Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC). Einstein predicted BEC in 1925, and Wieman's techniques to make it in 1995 involved laser cooling and magnetic trapping on atoms
VMOo8 TIL that Steven Spielberg wrote a treatment for a Jaws Prequel focused on a Young Quint on the U.S.S Indianapolis, described as “Saving Private Ryan, with sharks”.
7WLZ TIL that the first ingredient in nutella is sugar and that it in fact contains 50% sugar
Z8ZPv TIL The High Place Phenomenon, also known as "The Call of the Void" is a sudden, strong, but usually very quickly dismissed, urge to do something incredibly stupid, usually associated with jumping off a high place.