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TIL that sloths can die of starvation with a full stomach.

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91vQ TIL that glass is transparent because of quantum mechanics, not due to the density of the particles. Basically since there are discrete energy states, if the photon can’t excite the electron up to the next orbital, it just falls back down and shoots the photon out with the same momentum as before.
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wbP6 TIL that in 2005 a blogger named Simon Ng blogged about his sister’s ex-boyfriend coming over 3 hours before the ex murdered him and his sister. His final blog post led police to apprehend their murderer.