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TIL a gas cloud in space has been discovered with alcohol, enough to produce 400 trillion pints of beer.

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YpOB7 TIL of Eliahu Itzkovitz. A Romanian jew who after witnessing the murder of his family at the hands of a guard in a concentration camp joined the IDF, murdered the guards son and ultimately tracked and killed the guard himself.
e0Jv4 TIL for his role in liberating the Jews of Babylon and allowing them to rebuild in Zion, Cyrus the Great, founder of the Persian Empire, is the only non-Jewish person in the Bible/Torah to be described as a messiah.
AD8Yw TIL the Winter Arctic Games are held biennially, featuring athletes from nine teams: Alaska (USA), Northern Alberta, Northwest Territories, Nunavik - Quebec, Nunavut, Yukon (all Canada), Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug (Russia), Sami people (Arctic Nordic countries, Kola Peninsula), and Greenland
epDVg TIL that Kraftwerk got paid 200.000 euros for the official Hannover Expo 2000 jingle. It was 4 seconds long!
8alxL TIL that actress Joan Barry (blood type A) sued Charlie Chaplin (blood type O) for support of a child (blood type B) whom she claimed he fathered. Although it was not possible that the child was Chaplin's, he was still ordered to pay until the child turned 21.