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TIL that tree frogs freeze in the winter and come back to life in the spring

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D1oe TIL that Patrick Moore, co-founder of Greenpeace, admits that he was wrong about nuclear power
9wlNX TIL Atmospheric rivers are long, narrow regions in the atmosphere, like rivers in the sky, that transport massive amounts of water vapor from of the tropics roughly equivalent to the average flow of water at the mouth of the Mississippi River. They can unleash heavy rain and cause severe flooding.
Z5mo TIL parents in New York who don’t believe in diapers are teaching their babies to poop in the sink or on the street
4XyEJ TIL the park that contains the Confederate "memorial" on Stone Mountain was opened exactly 100 years after Lincolns assassination.
OGooY TIL Edgar Whisenant, former NASA engineer, wrote a multi-million-copies-sold book about the Rapture happening in 1988. When it didn't, he wrote another one about it happening in 1989, then 1993, and finally in 1994. His predictions were unsuccessful.