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TIL about Detroit Electric

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit_Electric

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TIL that full automation of subway systems is illegal in the United States

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TIL that a recent data leak exposed Peter Thiel's secretive elite "club", Dialog Network

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TIL that half the visual information from each retina goes to one hemisphere of the brain, rather than one eye per hemisphere

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TIL There is a pink Kryptonite that makes Superman gay or effeminate

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Most Transsexual Porn Is Watched By Straight Men

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TIL that nearly half of US adults struggled to afford healthcare last year

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TIL: There are giant viruses and they get viruses

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wikipedia link for those who just wanna learn about giant virus’s.

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TIL the "red mirage" is an observed phenomenon when the overall in-person vote count leans to one party, while provisional votes or absentee ballots, often counted later, lean towards the other

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TIL that every year, drivers in New York City spend, on average, 107 hours — or more than four days — looking for parking spaces.

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Today I learned haphephobia is the fear being touched

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Just started playing Death Stranding and the main character has it! Although the game calls it aphenphosmphobia. And I’m not sure it’s a phobia, since it’s a very rational fear for him.

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@til Today I learned that the word “gorilla” comes from Hanno the Navigator, who discovered a “tribe of hairy women” as he was sailing down the west ...

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@til Today I learned that the word “gorilla” comes from Hanno the Navigator, who discovered a “tribe of hairy women” as he was sailing down the west coast of Africa, whom his local guides called the “gorillai”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanno_the_Navigator#Gorillai

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TIL Campbell's tomato soup tastes exactly like Spaghettios.

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TIL that cancer drug Revlimid is one of the bestselling products of all time. It cost nearly $1,000 per pill, even though that same pill cost just 25 cents to make

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TIL that 75% of global tiger population lives in India.

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TIL reggae singer Shaggy, known for "Boombastic", developed his signature singing voice as a US Marine by mimicking his drill instructors.

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TIL Blepharidachne kingii is a species of grass known by the common name King's eyelashgrass. It is native to the Great Basin in the United States, where it grows in habitat such as pinyon-juniper

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TIL Marcus Junius Brutus, who killed Caesar, that after being adopted by a relative, he used the name Quintus Servilius Caepio Brutus.

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TIL Peter Thiel's former lover and alleged "blood boy" died under mysterious circumstances in 2023

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TIL Even wild desert cats love catnip

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TIL out of all gemstones, diamonds are the most common

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TIL about the deer fly, a harmless friggin annoyance that can shapeshift into something hard to find on web

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I found this on my head the second time today, last time i thought it was a spider (with doubts) So i tried to look for it for like 1-2 hours before i got it finally

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TIL “The Front Fell Off” is from Australian comedy news duo Clarke and Dawe

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TIL: Marine snow

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In the deep ocean, marine snow is a continuous shower of mostly organic detritus falling from the upper layers of the water column. It is a significant means of exporting energy from the light-rich photic zone to the aphotic zone below, which is referred to as the biological pump.

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TIL The location of the G-spot is typically reported as being about 50 to 80 mm (2.0 to 3.1 in) inside the vagina, on the front wall

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TIL A 2018 study of 2,304 women, reported that once genital stimulation began, women reached orgasm in an average of 14 minutes during Partnered Sex

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TIL a lot about genitalia thanks to @Don_Dickle@lemmy.world

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Thanks @Don_Dickle@lemmy.world!

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Vaginitis is soreness and swelling in and around the vagina. It's common and usually treatable.

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TIL Balanitis is a common cause of penile swelling. It occurs when the glans (head) penis is inflamed. About 3% to 11%Trusted Source of people with a penis will experience balanitis

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Research shows penile fractures are uncommon, with a yearly incidence of one case per 175,000 U.S. men.

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TIL they are currently testing a needleless SARS/COVID vaccine that was developed by AI.

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The whole idea of putting something in your body that AI came up with is unnerving, but this microfluid jet stream method of injection is kind of blowing my mind.

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NSFW TIL sperm during ejaculation can travel up to 28mph

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TIL that orgasm via masturbation or sex can provide relief for sinus pressure and nasal congestion.

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@til Today I learned that the Austrian School of Economics, on which our current economic models are based, is not itself based on empiricism and in ...

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@til Today I learned that the Austrian School of Economics, on which our current economic models are based, is not itself based on empiricism and in fact argues that it should not be based on empiric studies at all but on thought experiments. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Praxeology#Austrian_economics

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TIL Writing in Egypt was 'invented' around 3250 BC to organise the distribution and storage of goods.

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TIL that the world’s most valuable banknotes meant for public circulation are the $10,000 Singapore and Brunei Dollar bills

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TIL it takes roughly 600 to 800 grapes to make a standard bottle of wine

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TIL that the United States was selling raw materials to Nazi Germany in the middle of the battle of kursk in 1943

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“US corporations were conducting covert business operations with the Nazis: such as Standard Oil of California, Phillips Petroleum, Mack Trucks and Firestone Tires, which had subsidiaries in neutral nations like Sweden and Switzerland…”

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TIL the stop motion film industry is propped up by one rich kid

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TIL the longest field goal kick belongs to Cam Little of the Jacksonville Jaguars vs Las Vegas Raiders. It was a kick of 68 yards.

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TIL Arkansas was not originally the Natural state it went by The Bear State and Toothpick State and lastly the Rackensack state.

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The earliest known reference to the "Windy City" was actually to Green Bay in 1856.

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TIL it takes about 100lbs of force to rupture a testical.

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TIL Paul Reiser who played Burke in Aliens was so hated that his sister hit him during the films premiere and his mother approved

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TIL: That in 2021 almost 50% of adult Canadians struggle with literacy

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Despite relatively high education rates, an analysis of international assessments by Statistics Canada in 2013 showed that more than one in six adult Canadians fell short of passing the most basic set of literacy tests.

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TIL one of the Unabomber's victims had a six-year correspondence with Jeffrey Epstein.

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TIL the cost of transporting energy around

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Link to the paper

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TIL there is a movie named Ooga Booga. Ooga Booga follows an African American medical student who is brutally murdered by a cop, but his soul is magically transferred into an action figure

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TIL the Celts once lived in a large part of europe

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not only on the british isles. wiki

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TIL Rave Ramsy fired one of his employees over premarital sex

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TIL Porto, Portugal's official name is The Ancient, Very Noble, Ever Loyal and Undefeated City of Porto

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TIL about industrial electric heating technologies

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geteilt von: https://feddit.org/post/30609876

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TIL about the Spark-gap transmitter

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@til Today I learned that the first Xerox copier regularly caught fire, so they shipped it with a fire extinguisher

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@til Today I learned that the first Xerox copier regularly caught fire, so they shipped it with a fire extinguisher. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_914

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TIL about Hormesis. small doses of toxins can be good

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Radiation

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TIL: Peter Jackson made the decision to model one of the orc leader's face mask after Harvey Weinstein

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TIL that the U.S. Congress has its own intelligence agency

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TIL about the Nikon F

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TIL about OpenUtau and how vocaloids are worked with.

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So yesterday I was talking about vocaloid music to a friend of mine and how only the paid ones are called vocaloids and the free ones utau. So I decided to set up a small showcase of the open source program.

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TIL that "horology" is a term for the study of time

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I guess it’s like “horoscope”?

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TIL: After 1989 one of the first acts of the still existing GDR Volkskammer was to issue an apology to Israel and Jewish people for holocaust

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TIL: About electric scissors

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I was watching this video about a bad sponsorship experience involving an electric scissor product. I didn’t know they were a thing!

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TIL: gendered button/zipper placement on clothes (and a guess at why)

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Built a free British social chat site — would love

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Hey everyone! I’ve been building BritChat (britchat.co.uk) — a completely free, no-adverts social chat site for British people across all four nations.

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TIL: the Welsh battle of Orewin Bridge may be almost entirely fictional

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Justice fuel ✊🏼

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Justice fuel rules ✊🏼

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TIL that it was the English that burned Joan of Arc

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TIL that the belly button/naval is a 'scar'

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I guess it makes sense, but I’ve never thought of it like that before.

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From free speech advocates to critics: The Trump administration’s new rhetoric promotes support for censorship among Trump voters survey experiments shows

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TIL that eating dirt was common in the U.S. South until the 80s. People ate a handful a day, often seasoned with vinegar and salt.

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https://www.nytimes.com/1984/02/13/us/southern-practice-of-eating-dirt-shows-signs-of-waning.html

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TIL the Adelsons are the billionaire oligarchs responsible for pushing the US into war with Iran

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TIL that Caligula’s real name was Gaius. When he was 2-3 years old, he accompanied his father on a military campaign wearing a miniature uniform devised by his mother, complete with little army boots.

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TIL that Missouri forced Kansas City to spend at least 25% of its budget on police. The measure passed, despite 66% of Kansas City residents opposing it

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TIL that reading scores have plummeted in school districts around the U.S.

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Source

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TIL About Caesar, A 115 Year-Old American Slave And Also One Of The Earliest And Oldest People Ever Photographed, Who Was Forced To Work Until Age 80

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From Wikipedia:

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@til Today I learned that 400 million years ago, the largest land organism was kinda like a giant sausage sticking out of the ground

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@til Today I learned that 400 million years ago, the largest land organism was kinda like a giant sausage sticking out of the ground. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prototaxites

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TIL: About the pole of inaccessibility

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Thanks to BillyClark!

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TIL that dwarf rats exist. They're said to rarely get tumors, and to have a longer lifespan than regular rats.

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however, they might be prone to other illnesses and obesity, according to this reddit thread. (redlib link to the same thread)

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TIL Inflammation Causes Cartilage Loss

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*"inflammation is now understood to be a key mediator of OA that

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TIL about skeleton watches which deliberately have all the moving parts visible

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True ‘skeletonization’ also includes the trimming away of any non-essential metal on the bridge, plate, wheel train or any other mechanical part of the watch, leaving only a minimalist ‘bare’ skeleton of the movement required for functionality.

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Today I learned that, despite having a mainland measuring just 20 square kilometers, 80% of the island nation of Naoero is uninhabitable due to mining

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TIL of Carpenter Bees.

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They will respond to the shaking of a stick, but they always just come back. Can be very destructive to human habitats of wood

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TIL about Epstein's surveillance dealings

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TIL about successful crowdfunded reboot of International Sun-Earth Explorer-3 satelite

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TIL that in fiscal year 2026, the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program has admitted 6,066 South Africans, 3 Afghans and nobody else

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TIL about system justification theory and how people defend unfair systems because it’s easier than admitting they’re being screwed

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TIL there's a Mollusc of the Year competition

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TIL the screeching sound of peeling tape is caused by tiny sonic booms

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TIL the children of Theodor Herzl have driven themselves into extinction.

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His daughter Paulina suffered from mental illness and drug addiction. She died in 1930 at the age of 40 of a heroin overdose.

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TIL that the first real marshmallows were created around 2000 BCE in Ancient Egypt

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I bought a little bottle of Cussons handsoap on sale called “Mallow Magic”, and just noticed today that the label very proudly claims “Trusted Since 1869”.

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TIL about featherbedding

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Today I learned the first president of Guyana was Chinese

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TIL people who are blind from birth never develop schizophrenia

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@til Today I learned that Ritalin (Methylphenidate) was named after the inventor’s wife Marguerite “Rita” Panizzon, because it improved her tennis ...

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@til Today I learned that Ritalin (Methylphenidate) was named after the inventor’s wife Marguerite “Rita” Panizzon, because it improved her tennis game (article in German). archive.li/VGcQD#selection-635

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TIL a white South African named Rodney Wilkinson worked with the ANC to bomb a nuclear plant being built by the Apartheid regime

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https://web.archive.org/web/20260506011916/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/05/the-man-who-blew-up-a-nuclear-power-station-koeberg-south-africa

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TIL plants do not develop cancer

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They do develop tumors, which the paper discusses.

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Brandolini's law - Wikipedia

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Brandolini’s law (or the bullshit asymmetry principle) is an Internet adage coined in 2013 by Italian programmer Alberto Brandolini. It compares the considerable effort of debunking misinformation to the relative ease of creating it in the first place. The adage states:

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TIL 4Kids Entertainment, Inc., behind infamous English dubs of shows such as One Piece, Yu-Gi-Oh!, and Pokémon, traded on the New York Stock Exchange as 'KDE'

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This isn’t riveting, insightful information. I just figured there were enough Linux nerds on Lemmy to find this funny.

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TIL about enhanced weathering

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Supposedly one of the better ways to sequester carbon dioxide on a massive scale. I’ve learned about ocean fertilization in the past, but this also seems like a really good geoengineering option.

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TIL about the "Apocalypse Early Warning System"

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In the event of an imminent nuclear apocalypse, we suspect that many people who have access to private jets will immediately take to the skies and escape city centers. This site tracks this indicator in realtime. The current emergency level is reported on a scale of 1 to 5, with 5 being an indicator of a likely imminent apocalypse.

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TIL pilot can roll down their window

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