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TIL that the Sun has a (very hot) "atmosphere" ~5x bigger than the rest of the Sun

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9YZbr TIL in 1983, the American Association of Blood Banks was told by the CDC that their blood supply was infecting people with the AIDs virus, but they refused to screen the supply due to cost concerns.
neNmr TIL there is a rare type of fluffy frost called hair ice that only forms on rotting wood. It baffled scientists for decades until 2015, when scientists determined that fungal activity was largely responsible for the ice formation.
0BvM TIL A hitchhiking robot that relied on the kindness of strangers to travel the world was found with its head and arms ripped off, just two weeks into its first American tour.
BrJWD TIL that the peanut butter jelly time guy died in a police shootout and was relatives with Snoop Dog.
VVxk TIL horses have the largest eyes of any land mammal, have excellent day and night vision, but they have two-color, or dichromatic vision; their color vision is somewhat like red-green color blindness in humans, where certain colors, especially red and related colors, appear as a shade of green.