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TIL of COCONUTS-2b, a giant gas planet that takes over 1 million years to orbit around its star

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OpG6 TIL that Elie Wiesel, a Nobel Peace Prize winner and author of the Holocaust memoir “Night”, started the Elie Wiesel Foundation For Humanity. The charity lost nearly $16 million in the Madoff Ponzi Scheme. Wiesel and his wife also lost their entire personal life savings.
b9W6p TIL That the mushroom Mario eats is called a Fly Agaric (Amanita Muscaria). It contains a psychoactive property where the individual experiences micropsia (a condition where objects appear smaller than they actually are, making you feel larger as a consequence).
mxbLx TIL use of CT scans has increased dramatically over the last two decades. An estimated 72 million scans were performed in the US in 2007 and more than 80 million a year in 2015. One study estimated that as many as 0.4% of current cancers in the United States are due to CTs performed in the past.
a8P5J TIL about the Kulangsu International Settlement an international settlement that served as the counterpart to the Shanghai International Settlement, and lasted until 1943
LQy7V TIL that there is a city in Minnesota named Montevideo, as in the capital of Uruguay, and both namesakes are sister cities, dating back to 1905.