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TIL How a Colorless Gas Controls Brain's Immune System. NO Regulates Microglia Activity via TRPV2

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P18Yn TIL Mainland Europe is in the middle of a years long drought. Major rivers are drying up, reservoirs in France and Italy are about 50% lower than they should be. Longest river in Italy, the Po, is 60% below its normal levels, and there is less than half of the expected snow on the Alps.
R7O99 TIL that Robert Downey Jr improvised the last line of Iron Man (2008) and changed the future of the Marvel Cinematic Universe completely.
awPjL TIL about a Tiger tank that managed to fight off 50 T-34s
6EyGX TIL in 1909, New York passed a law forbidding women from smoking outdoors, due to its "immorality and sexuality." Only one woman was ever arrested and fined $5. She told reporters, "no man shall dictate to me."
m1Ovx TIL That countryside churches sometimes seems to be sinking in the ground because of thousands of burial sites around them.