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TIL our solar system is currently traveling through an interstellar cloud that is as hot as the surface of the sun and 30 light years long. It is thought to have entered the region at some point between 44000 and 150000 years ago and is expected to remain within it for another 10000 to 20000 years.

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R7Yp9 TIL Jairo Mora Sandoval, a 26 year old who dedicated his life to protecting leatherback sea turtle nests from poachers on Moin beach in Costa Rica. Him and volunteers, would collects the eggs and guard them in a hatchery. On May 30, 2013, he was kidnapped and murdered.
4VaX TIL Apple doesn’t pay for product placement in TV and movies, yet it’s products appeared in 891 tv shows in 2011 alone.
JYm58 TIL of Inuka, a polar bear who was born at the Singapore Zoo in 1990. He was the first and only polar bear to be born in the tropics.
JY90l TIL that 22% land (approx 1,100,000 acres) of New Jersey is occupied by New Jersey Pinelands National Reserve, spread across 7 counties.
rNede TIL about “English as She is Spoke”, a Portuguese-English translation guide, written by an author that had no grasp of English. He used a Portuguese-French and then a French-English guide for help instead. The resulting book was read by both Mark Twain and Abraham Lincoln to have a good laugh.