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TIL If cockroaches survive a nuclear holocaust, they will still die in our homes from cold and starvation

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D1JDj TIL why people don't scream and flail around when they close to drowning; their bodies do not have the air needed to perform actions such as waving around or screaming for help to seek attention, so the body attempts to prolong your survival in a few ways completely subconsciously.
jNjba TIL that according to Astronomy Magazine's list of "Seven Wonders of the Solar System", the Earth's greatest wonder is our oceans.
wLMK7 TIL The Arizona Cardinals football team is older than the state of Arizona
698aQ TIL the ancient Greek alphabet -- and by implication today's English alphabet -- can be traced back to a single vote held in Athens in 403 BC on whether to adapt the "Ionic Alphabet", the first of the "Euclidean" alphabets. It supposedly took them one year to implement the metric change.
bKp0 TIL: More than 80% of the gold in California is still in the ground