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TIL glaciers are home to Ice Worms and the worms can melt if heated to 40F.

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0byp TIL that Neil deGrasse Tyson has declined every interview since 1993 that has had his racial identity as the premise: “That then becomes the point of people’s understanding of me, rather than the astrophysics. So it’s a failed educational step for that to be the case.”
VMQK4 TIL in Kentucky that five million gallons of the "angel's share" from bourbon evaporates every year, which is also covering the state in a black fungus called "Baudoinia" that feeds off the ethanol vapor released by liquor as it ages.
e054L TIL the reason you can't buy cashew nuts in their shell is because they are toxic to the touch, similar to poison ivy
Eg0Z7 TIL that Scooby-Doo has starred in 14 separate animated TV series since 1969
m10xp TIL of the curb cut effect, which describes the phenomenon of accessibility features designed for the disabled benefitting those without a disability. An example is many hearing people used closed captioning.