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TIL water becomes a non-polar solvent when it reaches supercritical state.

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R7Px7 TIL There’s a Little-Known Part of Russian Territory in the Middle of the EU
dx1B TIL that Creedence Clearwater Revival isn’t from the bayou, or even the deep south. They’re a bunch of hippies from right outside of San Francisco.
R7PAw TIL about the Potato Paradox, a counter-intuitive math calculation that states: If you have 100 lbs of potatoes made of 99% water and dehydrate them to be just 98% water, they would then weigh only 50 lbs.
lop5r TIL that JFK had his cabinet staff read "The Guns of August", a book about the start of WWI in August 1914, during the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1963, saying "I am not going to follow a course which will allow anyone to write a comparable book about this time, "The Missiles of October."
NX01N TIL there is a twelve step group like AA for poor people called Underearners Anonymous