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TIL that Ira Einhorn, an activist who helped establish Earth Day, also killed his ex-girlfriend in 1977 and composted her corpse in his apartment for 18 months.

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9wlNX TIL Atmospheric rivers are long, narrow regions in the atmosphere, like rivers in the sky, that transport massive amounts of water vapor from of the tropics roughly equivalent to the average flow of water at the mouth of the Mississippi River. They can unleash heavy rain and cause severe flooding.
k511 TIL that prior to creating The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams appeared in two Monty Python sketches, the first being episode 42.
a80WN TIL that manatees use their farts to swim. They hold in their gas to help them get closer to the surface of the ocean, and then expel it to help them travel back down to the bottom.
6aGJ TIL at the 2:58 mark in Hey Jude, you can hear Paul McCartney say “fucking hell” after making a mistake on the piano. The band thought it was so funny that they decided to keep it in the song.
W7vy9 TIL All digits of the each Anno video games title always added up to 9. Latest one being Anno 117: Pax Romana