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TIL one of Jupiter’s moon’s, Io, is the driest thing and most geologically active object in the Solar System

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OWw7 TIL Ellie Kemper (The Office, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Crazy Blow Job Girl) is from one of the wealthiest families in the State of Missouri and the granddaughter of Mildred Lane Kemper, the namesake of the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum at Washington University in St. Louis
9Yw4G “It’s not as silly a question as you might think,” says Michael Moore, a marine-mammal research specialist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts. “It would take some extraordinary circumstances, but any mammal can get rabies.”
0drvy TIL U.S. citizens who have never resided in the U.S. and have a parent or legal guardian that was last domiciled in one of 12 States (Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Indiana, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Pennsylvania, Texas, Wyoming) are not eligible to vote.
DQwXV TIL Male mice are utterly terrified of bananas
J1Jwv TIL that swimmer Eric Moussambani won the 2000 Olympic 100m freestyle despite never seeing an Olympic-sized pool before. Qualifying for the games from a wildcard for developing countries, his two competitors were disqualified, and he swam alone. He won despite finishing with the slowest time ever