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TIL California has mandated all new homes to be energy neutral which is the equivalent of LEED Zero Carbon certification.

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WvVL TIL in Hinduism the world is destroyed every few billion years in a flood. A family chosen by god survives on a boat with two of every animal.
9jGM TIL in 2022, two stars in the constellation Cygnus will collide causing a red nova explosion that will be about as bright in our sky as Polaris, the North Star
XN8R TIL that a famous study – showing that people supposedly do better on “trick” questions when printed in a blurry font, which makes them concentrate – was debunked as an artifact of small sample size. (The study was cited in Nobel-Prize-winner Daniel Kahneman’s book “Thinking Fast and Slow.”)
worn6 TIL that in 2021, scientists successfully revived microscopic organisms called rotifers that had been frozen in Siberian permafrost for 24,000 years, and they were still able to reproduce.
l7eJB TIL Cleopatra wasn’t just alluring; she was crafty too. So the myth goes, she made a grand entrance to impress Julius Caesar by having herself rolled up in a carpet and delivered to his quarters. When the carpet was unrolled, out she came, nude and irresistible.