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TIL the Amazon pours so much water into the Atlantic that freshwater can be found so far offshore that there isn’t any land in sight.

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KO04G Protons are made up of even smaller particles called quarks, so you might expect that simply adding up the quarks’ masses should give you the proton’s mass. However, that sum is much too small to explain the proton’s bulk. And new, detailed calculations show that only 9 percent of the proton’s heft comes from the mass of constituent quarks. The rest of the proton’s mass comes from complicated effects occurring inside the particle, researchers report in the Nov. 23 Physical Review Letters.
0Jx5 TIL Mikhail Gorbachev, the former Soviet President, starred in a Pizza Hut commercial.
OGDyR TIL in January 1974 Nixon Signed a Law Making Daylight Savings Time Year-Round for Two Years and in October 1974 Gerald Ford Reversed it Because it Was Very Unpopular During Winter Months.
NX4P8 TIL that water tasting is actually a profession and they are called water sommeliers
9GXp TIL the word “canvas” is traced to Old French canevas, which in turn may be from Vulgar Latin cannepaceus, meaning “made of hemp,” derived from the Greek word κάνναβις (cannabis).