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TIL In Football, the quarterback doesn’t need to say hike to start the play

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aLLA TIL the metabolic rate of a dormant scorpion can be lower than that of a root vegetable like a carrot or beet.
Wk79o From powering airplanes to replacing nuclear energy, algae has been touted as a green energy miracle. So if our waterways are already filled with the stuff, why isn’t it filling the world’s skies with biofueled planes? Algae is a tricky creature that presents a lot of challenges and misconceptions. Here’s why it’s difficult to harness—and why it could big a big payoff.
BrJ6r TIL: The Uniform Time act allows states to be except from daylight savings time, or observe it normally. It does not allow for States to observe permanent daylight savings time, a measure that has been passed by 6 States.
yXJM TIL that Conan O'Brien has majored in history and literature, graduated with a magna cum laude from Harvard University, and wrote his senior thesis on the use of children as symbols in the works of William Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor
GaME TIL there’s a waterfall where nobody knows where the water goes. Minnesota’s Devil’s Kettle Falls dumps into a giant pothole with no seeable exit. Researchers have poured dye, ping-pong balls, even logs into it, then watched the lake for any sign of them. So far, none have ever been found.