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TIL There’s a huge reservoir of water in space that’s 100,000 times the mass of our sun. It contains 140 trillion times the amount of water on Earth.

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YL6P TIL after Scarface was given an X rating three times by the MPAA, director Brian De Palma held a panel of real narcotics experts who said that the film was a realistic portrayal of the drug underworld that should be seen by everyone. Because of this, the MPAA allowed the third cut to be released.
4kOaR TIL France consumes around 16000 tons of snails a year!
VBLj8 TIL that both Quantum tunneling and Quantum Entanglement are both involved in the process of a tadpole turning into a frog.
W7JA9 TIL that virtually all of the ice in the biosphere is known as Ice I. At higher pressures though, there are 19 known different phases of ice.
X0wr8 TIL Strain 121 (Geogemma barossii) is a single-celled microbe that is able to reproduce at 121 °C (250 °F). It was (at the time of its discovery) the only known form of life that could tolerate such high temperatures.