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TIL while most people only know of Solid, Liquid and Gas there are around 2 dozen other states of matter, including Plasma, Time Crystals, Degenerate Matter, Superfluids, Supersolids, and the Rydberg Polaron - a state where atoms exist within other atoms.

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Z8bvD TIL: The Dutch government built the worlds first floating dairy farm, the Floating Farm, in anticipation of a world with shrinking land supply. The cows are on the farm's second level, a garden-like enclosure where the animals will be milked by robots, above is a greenhouse with grass for foraging.
5YONr TIL Nashville, TN isn't referred to as the "Athens of the South" because of its full size replica of the Parthenon, but because it was the first American southern city to establish a public school system in the 1850s
j6BvX TIL actress Catherine Russell has only missed four performances (to attend siblings' weddings) as the lead in the off-Broadway play Perfect Crime since it opened in 1987. She holds the world record for most performances as the same character in a play with over 13,800.
KOA4E TIL Semantic satiation (also semantic saturation) is a psychological phenomenon in which repetition causes a word or phrase to temporarily lose meaning for the listener, who then perceives the speech as repeated meaningless sounds.
VBoQk TIL that knowledge is not power