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TIL Stephen Hillenburg, creator of SpongeBob SquarePants, is a marine biologist.

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R7eQw TIL the part of the Chinese character that appears alongside other symbols in the same character repeatedly (for example the 人 in 囚, 仄, and 坐) is called the radical. Most of the time this give hints to what the character means.
oR4er TIL the term sensory-specific satiety, which is where your body can get “full” of one specific type of food but then get a renewed appetite for another type. The concept explains why you can finish a big meal and not be hungry anymore, but then happily eat dessert.
D1NWe TIL That the coldest temperature recorded was -144°F in Vostok Antartica. Humans can’t inhale air that cold for more than a few breaths—it would cause your lungs to hemorrhage. Russian scientists ducking out to check on the weather station would wear masks that warmed the air before they breath in.
nNeW TIL the cymbal company, Zildjian was founded over 400 years ago in the Ottoman Empire and is one of the world’s oldest existing companies.
4pOR TIL A man escaped prison using a cardboard box aka Solid Snake syle