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TIL that the solar system is passing through an interstellar cloud that physics says should not exist.

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YpE6Z TIL that Pre-Columbian cultures, in particular Mesoamerican and South American cultures practiced Human Sacrifice. While the exact ideologies behind Child sacrifice are unknown but it is often thought to have been performed in order to placate certain gods.
9pOD TIL Sean Connery lost his virginity when he was 14 years old to an adult woman.
GYNp5 TIL that "sinister" means "left" or "left-handed" in Latin from the word "sinus" meaning "pocket". In Roman togas, the pocket would be on the left side. This grew to left-handed people having unlucky or even evil connotations, which led to the modern English word "sinister".
VM8D8 TIL In 1740 a Swedish woman named Christina Johansdotter killed a friends infant in order to die herself as a result of execution for her crime. Bizarrely, killing children as a method of suicide was so problematic the government tried getting involved (tagged as NSFW just in case)
vPj5D TIL according to international space law, space is defined as common heritage of humanity, which makes territorial claims in space prohibited. The main purposes of this law are to prevent colonial claims and militarization of space.