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TIL that sea drops by about 328 ft (100m) near Sri Lanka because gravity is anomalously weaker there

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W7MLA TIL because of the low humidity due to high elevation in Denver, the Colorado Rockies baseball team started using a humidor to store baseballs in 2002, after which they found that home runs and other stats became more in line with the rest of the league
mxmwy TIL flow is the mental state in which a person is completely absorbed in an activity, resulting in a loss of their sense of space and time.
ADg1B TIL about Baltimore's Mr. Trash Wheel, a waterway trash inceptor that removed approx. 200,000 bottles, 173,000 potato chip bags, and 6.7 million cigarette butts from the inner harbor in just 18 months of initial operation.
ANEww TIL Macklemore & Ryan Lewis stirred debate when they won all 3 rap categories (Album, Song, Performance) at the 2014 Grammys after the Grammy rap committee rejected the duo, but were later overruled by the general Grammy committee. The rap committee felt the duo should qualify for pop awards instead
QJ9ME TIL that evolutionary biologists believe that humans developed the ability to use reason and rationality to win arguments and manipulate their surroundings rather than to find truth and make decisions.