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TIL that by the end of the century Canada's growing season will likely be 20-40 days longer

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awaMA TIL the horror film Poltergeist (1982) was rated PG, due to the original vote for an R rating being overturned and because there was no PG13 rating at the time.
rRxaW TIL that the collective tension of all the strings on a piano totals out at about 20 tonnes.
GYmEJ TIL that Archimedes once said, "'Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world." This is based on the law of the lever which has proven that by trading force for distance, a human could move the earth if they were given a long enough lever.
OAPX TIL the Vatican added 7,000 LEDs to illuminate Michelangelo’s 6,000-square-foot Sistine Chapel ceiling painting. Thanks to this intervention, the work is now more visible to visitors than it has ever been in its 500-year history, including the years in which it was lit by daylight.
nWaab TIL that the Titanic was the place of discovery for tiny iron eating microbes. These microbes form icicle-shaped “rusticles.” Which consists of 35% iron compounds and a community of symbiontic microbes and fungi. “Halomonas titanicae” is expected to dissolve the Titanic by 2045.