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TIL those plastic bead things on purses and clothing are called sequins.

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kJWE TIL: If you zoom all the way in on the White House in Google Maps, you can get a virtual tour!
kJZpd TIL that the Mariana Trench, the deepest part of Earth’s oceans, descends nearly 11 kilometers (about 36,000 feet) into complete darkness. Down there, temperatures are near freezing, and the pressure is over 1,000 times greater than at sea level enough to crush most human-made submarines.
690m7 TIL While light takes 8 minutes to reach earth from the sun, an object traveling the speed of light would orbit earth 7.5 times in 1 second.
yQrAw TIL the actual quote from Apollo 13 astronaut Jack Swigert is "Okay Houston, we've had a problem here."
WMX TIL there is a Chinese version of Twitter that has twice the users that Twitter has.