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TIL AirPods’ batteries only last about 18 months
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TIL that scientists use measurements collected by seals swimming under the sea ice with temporary satellite tags to study polynya (an area of unfrozen sea water surrounded by ice)
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TIL that, as a fraction of their income, Americans spend less on food than residents of any other country.
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TIL Mikhail Gorbachev, the final Leader of the Soviet Union, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1990 for “his leading role in the peace process”
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TIL if you can hear thunder, you are close enough to be struck by lightning.
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TIL the African Clawed Frog provided the first well-documented method of detecting pregnancy in women. Injecting urine from a pregnant woman into a frog resulted in the frog laying eggs shortly after.