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TIL there is a gigantic water vapor cloud in space that holds 140 Trillion times the water in earths oceans.

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kOgV4 TIL that Rutherford B. Hayes didn't serve alcohol at White House events. Secretary of State Evarts quipped that at White House dinners, "water flowed like wine."
V98Q TIL that the killer of Jacob Wetterling, an 11-year-old boy who was kidnapped in 1989 and went missing for 26 years, was actually questioned by the FBI less than two months after the boy’s abduction, but was let go. In 2016, he confessed to the killing – but he will not be charged.
0dNQj TIL that Ruhollah Khomeini never issued a fatwa against Salman Rushdie. What was given was called a hukm, which - unlike the fatwa - remain valid even after the death of the authority who issued it.
R7Xn7 TIL that the two biggest indoor arenas in the world, the KJC King Dome and the Philippine arena, are both owned by cults
wgK7 TIL Famed molecular biologist James Watson put his Nobel Prize up for auction in 2014 due to financial hardships. It sold for $4.1 million, and was promptly returned to him by the buyer.