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TIL there are at least five states of matter. The fifth, most unrecognizable one is called a Bose-Einstein condensate.

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KO8b6 TIL that a 'White Hurricane' hit Michigan in November of 1913 with 90mph winds, waves over 35ft high and resulted in 250 deaths, 19 destroyed ships and 19 other ships stranded.
Go5Q TIL that when FDR died in 1945, Harry Truman offered his condolences to Eleanor, asking, “Is there anything I can do for you?” Mrs. Roosevelt responded, “Is there anything we can do for you? For you are the one in trouble now.”
eMkg TIL of Jerome Rodale, a longevity expert and father of organic farming. While filming an interview for The Dick Cavett Show, Rodale declared “I’ve decided to live to be a hundred”, and “I never felt better in my life!”. Minutes later, while still filming, Rodale died of a heart attack.
LkjMQ TIL Princess Leia's ship in A New Hope, Tantive IV, was the original design for the Millennium Falcon
g5b7 TIL a working-class couple in Harlem with no expertise amassed a collection of art worth over $10 million by slowly buying works directly from up-and-coming artists. Their strategy? “We bought what we liked”