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TIL almost every word Neil deGrasse Tyson says in COSMOS was written by Carl Sagan’s wife, Ann Druyan

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x6b5b TIL That the functional sleeve buttons on suit jackets nowadays trace their origins back to military surgeons as they would unbutton their sleeves to perform surgery to avoid staining their sleeves when attending to patients. Hence the apt term “Surgeon Cuffs”.
nWmbB TIL: ARk Storm 2.0 (Atmospheric River Storm) will happen every 25 - 50 years, engulfing the great basin
9Ynvp TIL anthropologists consider society’s reaction to human sex trafficking to be a “moral panic,” with inflated data points and well-publicized “horror stories” that have little basis in reality.
plKN TIL the first RollerCoaster Tycoon was written entirely in assembly code - the raw language used by your processor - by one developer. He recieved $30 million for his efforts.
W7XmB TIL the medical term for a runny nose is Rhinorrhea