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TIL that according to The World Health Organisation’s standards, Australian homes are on average colder than homes in Finland, Greenland, and the United Kingdom during the winter season

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Y79mA TIL about a children's game called Snapdragon were kids pulled raisins out of alcohol fire
jNQOE TIL there are 6 Korean Female Pro Golfers who all share the same name, Jeongeun Lee. To prevent mixups and confusion, they have been named Lee1, Lee2, Lee3, Lee4, Lee5, and Lee6.
kOXdB TIL in August 1968 after being turned down by 19 other teams, the Atlanta Braves signed 62-year-old pitcher Satchel Paige so he could get his MLB pension. He needed only 158 days on an active roster to reach the five-year minimum required to receive his pension. He collected $250 a month.
pYxbN TIL about the transition state theory; developed in 1935, it has been used to calculate the standard enthalpy of activation, the standard entropy of activation, and the standard Gibbs energy of activation for all chemical reactions where the rate constant was experimentally determined.
6Ek7l TIL many farmers are cracking their JD tractors with premium pirated software made by eastern europeans due to how expensive repairing their machines is.