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TIL tumbleweeds are a public health menace, damaging houses, causing car accidents, and stoking wildfires

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E1jwV TIL that millisecond pulsars are stars that complete at least one full rotation in less than 10 milliseconds. The fastest spinning pulsar rotates 716 times per second, and is as consistent in its rotation as an atomic clock when measured across decades
V6B0 TIL: In 2009, the President and Cabinet of the Maldives held a meeting underwater - in SCUBA gear - to sign a declaration calling for global cuts in carbon emissions. The Maldives is expected to disappear under rising seawater this century.
Jx0m TIL Leonhard Euler was the first mathematician to designate the function by writing it f(x).
grYPb TIL Timothee Chalamet (29) is the oldest member of Gen Z this makes him the same Generation as a 15 year old as of 2025
jN70n TIL that 1991 song 'Losing My Religion' by REM isn't about a guy being separated from Higher being but simply about unrequited love.