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TIL There’s a mass reservoir of water floating in space that is 100,000 times bigger than our sun and holds 140 trillion times more water than all of our oceans.

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grP7W TIL: Sherman Sizemore, through medical errors, experienced 16 minutes of an exploratory laparotomy, before he was given an anesthetic. Prior to this, he was only given a paralytic, forcing him to feel every cut the surgeon made in his body.
OGVl1 TIL about the LASD( Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department) deputy gangs
lodV7 TIL that the poetic way of saying "I love you" in Japan is "The moon is beautiful, isn't it?"
jNZAX TIL the dark region on the north pole of Pluto's moon, Charon, is named Mordor after the black volcanic plane from Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings"
D1Z7g TIL that female ultrarunners are faster than male ultrarunners at distances of over 195 miles. One possible reason for this is that, when compared to males, female ultrarunners have muscles that are more resistant to fatigue and are able to burn their storage of fat for energy more efficiently.