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TIL the James Webb Space Telescope captured an eruption of water vapor that punched 6K miles (9.5K km) out into space from a geyser on the Saturn moon Enceladus. The largest spray of water ever seen in space gave unprecedented insight into how the moon's geysers supply material to Saturn's icy rings

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gLWb TIL Around 1/3 of American teenagers have texted full nudes of themselves and could potentially be charged with the creation and distribution of child pornography.
4mV6 TIL Disney’s Mulan grossed $300 million worldwide but barely made $30,000 in her home province of Hunan,China. Some Beijingers say they found her too self-aggrandizing, and opposes Confucian culture, which emphasizes values of modesty and community
e0Mlb TIL that the famous 80's car, the Delorean, was meant to have a new sport design, dubbed the DMC Delorean Firestar 500, but plans fell through in 1986 and those plans never came to be.
Qp9M TIL De Beers no longer controls the diamond market and prices are set by market forces after a century long monopoly
G7NE TIL Whoopi Goldberg was high when she won her Oscar for “Ghost”