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TIL that the pancake ice, a collection of loose and plate ice crystals, features raised edges that is formed by slush on a turbulent water, different from other types of sea ice formed under calm conditions.

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78Rj7 TIL Californians are limited to 1.8 gallons of water per a minute per their shower heads. In my country I have a flow rate of 5 gallons a minute in a waterfall type shower head. How do Californians even stay clean with 1.8 when the federal rate is 2.5 gallons, way higher.
Ypp8x TIL negative symptoms (apathy, lack of drive,..) from schizophrenia are more debilitating than positive symptoms (hallucinations, delusions,..). They are also less treatable with medication.
9wvDB TIL of the single tax movement (aka geoism or georgism), an economic ideology where that the government should be funded by a tax on land rent rather than taxes on labor
XE1ER TIL Salvador Dali avoided paying restaurant tabs by using checks. He would draw on the back as the waiter watched, knowing no one would ever cash the art.
Ooylg TIL a woman in France accidentally received a phone bill of €11,721,000,000,000,000 (million billion). This was 5000x the GDP of France at the time. It took several days of wrangling before the phone company finally admitted it was a mistake and she owed just €117.21. They let her off.