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TIL: A Single Watermelon Once Sold For $6100
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Me0X0
TIL that the parents of Cliff Burton, Metallica bassist killed in a bus crash in 1986 at the age of 24, have been quietly donating his royalties to the music program of his former high school ever since.
dWG8
TIL An infant starved to death while parents raised virtual child in online game
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No one is entirely sure. Water has high surface tension, yet the molecules at its surface are unstable, which makes the air-surface interface mysterious and difficult to describe. Satoshi Nihonyanagi, a researcher at a molecular-spectroscopy lab in Japan, studies water and its surface—"specifically probing the interface," he calls it—using isotopically diluted H2O, which doesn't vibrate and is easier to observe. He's found that some water molecules are bound to others by a single hydrogen bond.
gL07
TIL in 1980 a 10 year-old became the youngest librarian in the US after petitioning his mayor for a local library. Starting with 2,000 books he collected himself, his library climbed to 17k books by 1985 after his story was featured across the country including The Tonight Show and Reading Rainbow.
QNNVe
TIL that the Pacific island of Guadalcanal and the Mexican city of Guadalajara have the same origin - the originally Arabic word wādī meaning valley.