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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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XYLP TIL ancient tablets unearthed in Iraq in the 1800s have revealed that principles of Calculus were used by Babylonian astronomers to calculate the position of Jupiter 1400 years before Calculus was ‘invented’ by European mathematicians
JYvQB TIL that the Australian serial killer, Eric Cooke, was captured by police after he hid a murder weapon in a nearby bush. Police found the weapon and returned it to the same bush tied to fishing line. Police then constructed a hide and waited 17 days until Cooke retrieved the rifle.
XDOk TIL, that Chinese smoke around 2.2 trillion cigarettes a year, of which 400 billion are fake, made mostly in illegal cigarette factories in caves below a city in China, often containing 80 percent more nicotine, 130 percent more carbon monoxide and occasionally insect eggs and human feces.
x68K5 TIL that fractual burning, a hobby/side hustle that uses a 2,100+ volt transformer from a scrapped microwave to burn decorative, treelike designs in wood, has killed at least 33 people in the U.S. since 2017, and gruesomely burned many others.
JMg1 TIL Not only were the founding fathers against the idea of political parties, John Adams once said: “This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution.”