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TIL there’s a difference between ranch dressing and ranch dip

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oRmxr TIL that Monday kicked off Good Night Lights week in Providence, RI, where each night at 8:30pm residents with a view of Hasbro Children’s Hospital flicker lights in their homes for one minute to signal goodnight to patients there.
oB6YA TIL Seth MacFarlane donated over 800 boxes of material documenting Carl Sagan’s life and work to the US Library of Congress
BMRW TIL blanket octopuses tear tentacles off of the Portuguese man o’ war and use them as weapons
5VwL8 TIL: The term "pathetic fallacy" (meaning the personification of nature) was not created as an insult. Coined in 1856, at the time "pathetic" meant "of emotion" and "fallacy" meant "falseness". The intended meaning was thus "emotional falseness", i.e emotions creating false perceptions.
OokaX TIL vintners sold concentrated bricks of wine during prohibition with the explicit warning not to leave the juice from them in a bucket in the cool cupboard for 21 days, or it would turn into wine.