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TIL that TON 618, 18.2 billion light years from Earth, is one of the largest black holes in the universe. The gas cloud that surrounds it has a diameter of at least 100 kiloparsecs(330,000 light-years), twice the size of the Milky Way.

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6EpwX TIL Ressentiment is a sense of hostility toward an object that one identifies as the cause of frustration, i.e. an assignment of blame for one's frustration. The sense of inferiority complex and jealousy in the face of the "cause" generates a rejecting value system which attacks the perceived source
5YLxB TIL of a comet that survived passing through the Sun
VM0rB TIL Virginia Woolf killed herself by filling her pockets with rocks and walking into the River Ouse
oRnEo TIL of the Octomom case of 2009, where a single mom was implanted with 12 embryos and gave birth to 8 babies (octuplets). They are currently the longest surviving octuplets ever. Ultimately her fertility doctor had his license revoked.
dDDA9 TIL about Malaga Island, a mixed race community off the coast of Maine that was forcibly depopulated in 1912.