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TIL the international space station has an acre of solar panels that generate enough electricity to power 40 homes

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M8KB TIL Michael Jackson wrote over 40 tracks for Sonic The Hedgehog 3. Although he requested not to be credited(due to dissatisfaction with the sound quality), his compositions made it into the final game.
Z1e4 TIL that there’s an island in Scotland that is inhabited by Wallabies.
Z8dyY TIL Crayola has a "Colors of the World" crayon box that includes 24 skin tone shades
GnbN TIL Carl Sagan was an avid marijuana user his entire life. “I am convinced that there are genuine and valid levels of perception available with cannabis (and probably with other drugs) which are, through the defects of our society and our educational system, unavailable to us without such drugs”
8vgP TIL that one woman successfully smuggled 2500 jewish children away from the nazis during the holocaust.