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TIL the most common state of matter in the universe isn't solid, liquid, or gas, but plasma

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ZBWv TIL about Irena Sendler who (assisted by some two dozen other Żegota members) smuggled approximately 2,500 Jewish children out of the Warsaw Ghetto and then provided them with false identity documents and shelter outside the Ghetto, saving those children from the Holocaust.
loQJ7 TIL about a species of extremophile bacteria that was only ever found in two spacecraft clean rooms, located 4000 km apart. In one of them a Mars lander "Phoenix" was assembled, and the species was given a name after the lander: Tersicoccus phoenicis.
e0XLJ TIL That Weird Al Yankovic wanted to include the song Yoda on an album, but securing permission from both George Lucas and the Kinks delayed the physical release of the song for about five years. Lucas eventually gave Yankovic permission.
l7LkV TIL that 600 million years ago, a day on Earth lasted only 21 hours. Earth’s rotation has been slowing ever since, and now the length of a day increases by about 1.8 seconds every century
dn4r TIL A women by the name of Barbara Puc, one of 3,000 babies born at Auschwitz, survived and is still alive today at the age of 72.