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TIL that there is a giant water vapor cloud in the middle of the cosmos that is 12 billion light-years away, is 100,000 times larger than the sun, and holds about 140 trillion times more water than all of Earth’s oceans.

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Zp4d4 TIL Kathy Schroeder, a survivor of the Waco tragedy, still identifies as a Branch Davidian, believes that she would still be at Mount Carmel if the siege hadn't happened, and is still convinced that David Koresh was "a prophet, the son of God, a manifestation of God."
R51Pj TIL Pygmalion, a Greek myth about a sculptor who falls in love with his ivory statue, is the oldest known story of an inanimate object gaining sentience, predating Pinocchio by over 1,800 years."
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DxrJ TIL that Guillermo del Toro left years of notes for a film in the back of a cab, he thought it was the end of the project. However, the cab driver found them and, realizing their importance, tracked him down and returned them. It made Del Toro ever more determined to complete “Pan’s Labyrinth”.