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TIL that on the planet Mercury there is a crater named after George Balanchine because it looks like one of his tutus.

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KYVE TIL that modern knowledge on how the human body reacts to freezing is based almost exclusively on Nazi human experimentation.
wVR1 TIL China built roughly one windmill an hour in 2009
kpY1 TIL the inventor of chocolate chip cookies sold the idea to Nestle in return for a lifetime supply of chocolate.
gA19 TIL that if someone has debt and dies, their family does not have to pay it off. But some banks will try to get them to anyway in case they think they need to.
lK9A TIL that the most complex Chinese character (hanzi) is 64 strokes & means ‘verbose’.