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TIL that continents move at the same rate fingernails grow
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TIL 6% of the land in the US lower 48 states is worth more than all the rest of the 94% of the area
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TIL: The entire 3 season run of Jackass aired in less than a year
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TIL in 2000 a man looking for a barber chair at a garage sale purchased a two deteriorated boxes of items for $45. He later found the boxes contained 65 glass plate negatives from photographer Ansel Adams worth $200 million.
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TIL Any word, when repeated multiple times consecutively, loses its meaning and starts sounding weird. This is called semantic satiation. It happens because the brain ceases to recognise it as a word and breaks it down into sounds.
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TIL artist Binh Danh develops photographs directly on to leaves, using the natural combination of chlorophyll and sunlight. Also, TIL that’s possible.