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TIL: Corn plants release thousands of gallons of water into the air every day as they grow (transpiration). This can change the humidity of the air and even the weather in the corn belt.

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47la TIL Dogs have slits on the outside of each nostril, which allow him to exhale without disturbing the scent particles in front of his nose. Breathing out the side slits helps release air while holding scent particles in the nostrils, so that a dog isn’t as likely to lose a scent
Oob56 TIL the Tourette Association of America initially feared South Park’s release of their Tourettes episode, but ended up being surprised at how accurate and well-researched the show was on the condition. The only thing they critiqued was the frequent use of “coprolalia” or rampant swearing.
yVD7v TIL about Henry J. Kaiser, an American industrialist who helped build the Hoover Dam and whose steelyard made Liberty ships in WWII. At the height of his success he had his own automobile company and broadcast corporation. Today only the healthcare company Kaiser Permanente is left of his empire.
O4Vg TIL that for hundreds of years, “Computer” was a job title for a person who did math problems all day.
MeeP8 TIL 9th November is known as the ‘day of fate’ in German history- on the same day, Robert Blum was executed in 1848, Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicated in 1918, Hitler’s Munich Putsch occurred in 1923, Kristallnacht occurred in 1938, and the Berlin Wall came down in 1989.