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TIL that the Bay of Fundy has the most “extreme” tides in the world with the average being around 30 feet.

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Y7WlP TIL in 1890, August Kekulé, who was a German scientist, announced that his discovery of the ring structure of benzene came to him in a dream. Kekulé talked about dancing and whirling atoms. The atoms arranged themselves as a snake. He dreamed of the snake eating its own tail.
v1wor TIL that chainsaws were originally created to help with childbirth. If the baby was to large to fit through the birth canal, then the doctors had to cut parts of the pelvic bone with a chainsaw. Also, the woman that was giving birth was not given any anesthesia through this procedure.
0dMEp TIL that Clara Bow from Taylor Swift's recent album was a huge film star in the 1920s and 30s who made 58 films in the oppressive studio system, then walked away from it all to defy the system and lived out her life happily in privacy
YWXB TIL that American speech is punctuated with “uh” & “um”, English speech with “er” & “erm”, Japanese with “ā”, “anō”, & “ēto”, German with “äh”, French with “euh”– basically, every language uses different sounds to interrupt themselves while their brain is working on forming thoughts into words.
YRaP TIL The Samson Option is a hypothetical plan in place by Israel for a massive nuclear strike against its enemies and allies if the entire nation’s existence is threatened.