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TIL that because of the “Leap Second” yesterday, numerous websites crashed because their algorithms couldn’t compute that extra second, including Reddit.

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Dwnp TIL when you have red itchy swore eyes after swimming its caused from urine mixed with chlorine, not chlorine alone.
gMpGX TIL A 2015 study found no evidence that Kalash people of Pakistan are descent from soldiers of of Alexander the Great. The study, however, found that they shared a significant portion of genetic drift with MA-1, a 24,000-year-old Paleolithic Siberian hunter-gatherer fossil and the Yamnaya culture.
R5Lyl TIL that when Telly Savales was a child, he won a spelling bee at Cobbett Junior High School in 1934, but did not get the winner's award until 1991, due to an oversight
lera TIL Amelia Earhart wrote a prenup letter to her fiancée, George Putnam, stating she wanted an open marriage and “I shall not hold you to a medieval code of faithfulness to me, nor shall I consider myself bound to you similarly”. Also “I may have to keep some place where I can go to be myself”.
m1rQp TIL about the May 18,1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens, which was the most disastrous volcanic eruption to occur in the contiguous United States since the much smaller 1915 eruption of Lassen Peak in California.