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TIL about a water vapor 100 trillion times the amount on Earth around 12 Billion Light years away

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GAmMg TIL that Aruna Shanbaug, an Indian nurse spent 42 years in a vegetative state after a brutal assault in 1973. Shanbaug died of pneumonia on 18 May 2015, after being in a persistent vegetative state for nearly 42 years.
xV0do TIL that Bruce Lee’s son, Brandon Lee, was killed while filming a scene where his character gets shot. A bullet had become lodged in the barrel of the gun and when a dummy round was subsequently fired, the force expelled the bullet and hit Lee in the abdomen. He died a few hours later
AXVa TIL Walt Disney’s father was unimpressed when his son took him on a tour of his new film studio until Walt pointed out that it could be converted into a hospital if his animation business fails
BrboL TIL that Skylab, the American space station of the 1970s, was equipped with a shower that had a cylindrical curtain, a handheld push-button showerhead, and foot restraints.
OGeDL TIL that "The Harrisburg Freeway", a proposed highway extension in Houston in the 1970s, was cancelled due to the destruction of historic urban neighborhoods and environmental concerns.