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TIL What Glassmorphic Means In Web Dev and the Gaming Industry

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VddZ TIL that Corexit, the chemical dispersant used to “clean” the bp oil spill, is known to have high levels of toxicity in humans, with known links to lung damage, cancer, and other chemical poisoning effects. Corexit is still the go-to chemical for oil spills with no policies banning it in the US.
X0DdQ TIL When Jane married Stephen Hawking, she believed it would be a two year commitment, as doctors said he only had two years to live. Jane became his full time caretaker and they were together 25 years
Z8WpB TIL In Italy there is a supervolcano called Campi Flegrei. If it explode the entire Campania will be erased,the world temperature will be lower of several degrees,the ashes coming from the volcano will block the sunrays in the whole world leading to the death of many plants and animals
PYneV TIL The ratio of people using email for fun versus those using it for work has flipped since the 1990s. Many people nowadays dread email "because it is a conduit for unwanted advertising, a wide range of spam, and flat out attempts to scam or ‘phish’ us”
e0K9D TIL When a sloth's body temperature drops too low the bacteria in its gut that helps digest food stops working and it will starve to death even on a full stomach.