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TIL there’s an 80% chance, a “megadrought” lasting 35+ years will hit the American West before 2100.

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R710Q TIL Marie Antoinette built an entire fake village, complete with a working farm and fake villagers, in the backyard of Chateau de Versailles, so she could pretend to be a "peasant" whenever she felt like it.
MLxb TIL When a species of slime mold was exposed to conditions simulating Tokyo’s topography, it formed a copy of the city’s railway system.
wowNY TIL in 2000 a middle school student was ordered to pay his teacher $500,000 after creating a hate site about her that included a photo of her transforming into Adolf Hitler
Y7vxP TIL Section 746 of the 2010 US Dodd–Frank Act, prohibiting securities trading based on non-public info misappropriated from a government source, is called the "Eddie Murphy Rule." The term comes from the 1984 film Trading Places, where characters used insider info to short-sell frozen orange juice.
0wwR1 TIL the writers of “That 70’s Show” theme song get $70 each time the show airs. He refers to it as “That $70 Show”