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TIL AirBnB has almost negligible impact on rent and housing prices

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woD7E TIL in 2017 a 4-yr-old girl in Siberia awoke to find her grandmother was sick and not moving. After talking to her blind grandfather, she decided to walk 5 miles alone in temperatures as low as -34°C (-29°F) over several hours to the next homestead in order to find help, which she successfullly did.
E1A10 TIL Gold's yellow color and inertness are explained by Einstein’s theory of relativity. Gold's electrons travel so close to the speed of light that relativity contracts some of their orbits. This shrinks an energy gap so it absorbs blue light, and makes the outer electron less reactive.
p8lLG TIL that there is a standard for sending internet packets using people and flags
6WMZ TIL The 1997 comedy film Trojan War had a 15 million dollar budget and only made back $309.00 dollars in ticket sales at the cinema.
vA6R TIL A man convicted to 21,250 years in prison won an appeal - his sentence was reduced to 500 years.