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TIL that water vapor is the biggest contributor to the greenhouse effect.

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wLkWM TIL that an Alabama bloodhound joined a half marathon after her owner let her out to go pee. She ran the entire 13.1 miles and finished 7th.
R5MB1 TIL that the 1971 film Walkabout featured the first starring role played by an indigenous Australian. Prior to this, any portrayal of an Aboriginal character in Australia had been played by a white actor in blackface
rRg6W TIL the oldest material we've found on Earth was in the Murchison meteorite, being 2.5 billion years older than Earth itself
Oo9v7 TIL radiological technologist Paul Bateson inspired William Friedkin to include a medical procedure in The Exorcist which Bateson performed in the film. Bateson, active in the gay leather scene, later committed a murder and was linked to a series of murders, inspiring Friedkin to make Cruising
Wj4 TIL there is an ingredient used to make microwave popcorn “butter flavouring” called diacetyl that if inhaled can cause a dangerous condition known as “Popcorn Lung.”