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TIL Loofahs are actually plants

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D1JPr TIL that Vostok Station in Antarctica, with an average temperature of -55.2°, and where the coldest-ever natural temperature was recorded, is one of Earth's sunniest places, with more annual hours of sunshine than the sunniest places in South Africa - despite having no sunshine from May to August
j6EYX TIL the term “gaslighting” actually comes from a 1938 play, “Gas Light”, where a husband manipulates his wife to make her think she’s actually losing her sense of reality so he can commit her to a mental institution and steal her inheritance.
gr8J9 TIL in 1952, Jimmy Carter led a team of nuclear scientists in disassembling a Canadian nuclear reactor undergoing meltdown. To accomplish this, Carter, alongside other American military personnel, personally lowered himself into the reactor to disassemble it by hand.
VrGp TIL A Chinese woman drank an entire bottle of cognac when not allowed to bring on airplane; after finishing the bottle, she got barred from boarding due to wild drunken behavior
KOvQG TIL that the Scroll Lock was meant to, and still makes the arrow keys pan the window (in some programs, like Microsoft Excel) instead of moving the input cursor.