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TIL Fresh snow absorbs sound, lowering ambient noise over a landscape because the trapped air between snowflakes attenuates vibration. That´s why it gets so quiet when it snows

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oBGo8 TIL the character Totoro from Hayao Miyasaki's 1988 film My Neighbour Totoro, makes a cameo appearance in the 2010 Pixar film Toy Story 3. Daisuke Tsutsumi, the art director of Toy Story 3, is married to Miyazaki's niece, who was the original inspiration for the character Mei in My Neighbour Totoro.
VB1Zm TIL while most people only know of Solid, Liquid and Gas there are around 2 dozen other states of matter, including Plasma, Time Crystals, Degenerate Matter, Superfluids, Supersolids, and the Rydberg Polaron - a state where atoms exist within other atoms.
mxkBo TIL the Great Pyramid of Giza is not a square pyramid. The base of the pyramid is actually a concave octagon, thus making it an eight faced pyramid.
gyJy TIL that a day before 9/11, George Carlin recorded a live show for a album that was titled ‘I Kinda Like It When a Lotta People Die" which was shelved due to the events of the next day. The title was later planned to be re-used for a special in 2004, but was again discarded due to Hurricane Katrina.
N9YN TIL that during WWII, Gurkhas, for fun, would crawl through enemy Japanese lines, sneak up on the sentries, cut their shoelaces and then return without being detected.