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TIL that the Boomerang Nebula is the coldest place in the known universe, being 1 degree above Absolute Zero.

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DRyD TIL the mobile game “Send Me to Heaven” involves throwing your phone as high in the air as you can. the creator said he made it with the hope of destroying as many iPhones as possible, but Apple banned it from the App Store.
OXg7 TIL a female serial killer named “Phantom of Heilbronn” was linked to 40 crimes, six of which were murders. In 2009 it was discovered that she didn’t exist and her DNA was simply contamination from the cotton swabs used at the crime scenes.
9DvM TIL In France, where tennis first became popular, a big, round zero on the scoreboard looked like an egg and was called l’oeuf, which is French for “egg.” When tennis was introduced in the US, Americans pronounced it “love.”
xjwg TIL that the tumbling tumbleweed (Kali tragus), a long standing symbol of the lonely American West, is actually a foreign introduced species from Asia commonly called ‘Russian thistle’.
v0jr TIL the development of the golf tee was the last major change to the rules of golf. Before this, golf balls were teed up on tiny heaps of sand provided in boxes.