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TIL as ocean waters get warmer they absorb less and less CO2. meaning as the Earth heats up CO2 will be released from the ocean heating up the Earth even more

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Rnb8 TIL that when one of our fingers touches another, we perceive the sensation as weaker than when an external finger touches ours with the same force. Our brain filters the expected result of our own fingers touching in the evolutionary attempt to add importance and sensitivity to external events.
45rg TIL that hall of fame Chicago Cubs broadcaster Harry Caray was estimated to have drank 73,000 Budweisers during his lifetime.
XE6jR TIL in the card game Arboretum, tie-breakers are decided by players each planting a tree, coming back in 5 years, and seeing which one grew the tallest.
PQvO TIL the first computer mouse was made of wood
grXm9 TIL that the Kurdish people are the largest ethnic group (35-45 million!) without a homeland of their own. Britain and France had planned to give the Kurds their own independent state until the founder of the Republic of Turkey forced them to renegotiate.