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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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pXZQ TIL that a doctor in the Bronx was fired at the height of the 2015 Legionnaires outbreak for testing the water in patients’ homes.
KY9dw TIL That a Mexican salamander, the Axolotl, has an amazing regenerative ability. They can regenerate entire limbs, or even inner organs, such as parts of their brain, spinal cord or heart. New science is studying this ability to maybe help people who has suffered limb loss in the future.
xV5Xw TIL Rory McCann ('The Hound', Game of Thrones) was incredibly anti-social until he learned that fellow actors in the show's group, the 'Brotherhood Without Banners' (Thoros, Lord Beric) were musicians, and formed a band called 'Brotherhood Without Banjos' with them.
XQDE TIL a pig named Lulu saved her owner’s life while the woman was having a heart attack. The pig heard the cries of pain, forced her way out of the yard, ran into the road and ‘played dead’ to stop the traffic. A driver stopped, the pig led him to the trailer, he heard the woman and called 911.
8aKgb TIL Quarantine is from Italian 'quaranta giorni', meaning "forty days", used in 14th-15th-century Venetian dialect and designating the period that all ships were required to be isolated before passengers and crew could go ashore during the Black Death plague epidemic