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TIL Water doesn't always boil at 100 degrees

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b6yo0 TIL David Koresh, leader of religious cult Branch Davidians, was infatuated with American pop singer Madonna and claimed that God himself sent Madonna to Earth for him.
VMPLp TIL that ‘smell dispensers’ mimicking the smell of lion shit is used to scare off deer and wild boar despite these animals having never met a lion.
kOGb4 TIL Banpo Bridge in Seoul, South Korea is the world's largest "bridge fountain". LED-lit fountains span each side of the nearly 3/4-mile-long bridge and shoot dancing rainbow-colored jets of water.
b6rYE TIL about "Refrigerator Women", a trope in fiction where a female character is killed or seriously injured as a plot device to motivate the male characters, an example of which being the death of Gwen Stacey (Emma Stone) at the end of The Amazing Spider-Man 2
vgmj TIL if we eliminated all mosquitoes there would be little ecological damage aside from the loss of chocolate, of which mosquitoes are the main pollinator