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TIL that geomagnetic storms are correlated with an increase in suicide all over the world

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LQvDd TIL about Tiago Rech. In 2012, he gained fame as the sole fan supporting his local team, Santa Cruz-RS, at an away match. His dedication led to him being hired by the club. In 2014 he became the club president and in 2020 they won the FGF Cup and classified for Copa do Brasil for the first time.
MRQ8 TIL that in 1976 a janitor working at a Frito-Lay factory came upon some Cheetos with the cheese power missing after a machine broke on the assembly line, he took them home and put chili power on them and ‘Flamin’ Hot Cheetos’ were born.
R5l59 TIL of the half-life of knowledge which pertains to the duration it takes for half of the knowledge within a specific field to become outdated or replaced.
4XvEo TIL that Dexter Holland, lead singer of Offspring, was valedictorian of his school and had a masters in molecular biology before the band became famous. He since earned his PhD and published a paper on the use of computational molecular biological approaches to identify microRNA sequences in HIV
8Zb8 TIL Scotch Tape was named that because scotch used to mean ‘cheap’ and since it wasn’t as sticky as normal tape, someone asked the inventor why he’d gone 'scotch’ on the adhesive.