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TIL Star Wars nearly started a real life war between Tunisia and Libya.

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LQw6d TIL that in 1935 a fan walked onto the field and took an at bat in a Major League Baseball game, the only time a spectator has ever done so.
WknGN TIL by dry weight, the human brain is nearly 60% fat. And of that 10-20% is DHA (omega-3).
kOOEd Short answer: 142,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 Kelvin, give or take a few zeros.
BZly TIL when Anders Celsius invented the temperature scale, he put 100 degrees as the point for freezing and 0 degrees as the point for boiling. Another scientist, Carl Linnaeus, waited until Celsius had died to change the scale to the way we read it today.
P1O5E TIL about penitentes, spikes of snow that typically form in high-altitude areas. They can get as tall as 20 feet in the right conditions and are known to be very hard to break.