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TIL of superheating, the phenomenon in which a liquid is heated to a temperature higher than its boiling point, without boiling

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kOOJe TIL Evidence to support the view that some obese people eat little yet gain weight due to a slow metabolism is limited; on average, obese people have a greater energy expenditure than their healthy-weight counterparts due to the energy required to maintain an increased body mass.
E1QJo TIL That in the Live Aid Queen performance, at 16:38 you can see a wave going to the back of the stadium from the people clapping. That wave is the speed of sound, caused by the people at the back hearing the music a split second before the people at the front.
Ve4B TIL that the postal code of the North Pole is H0H 0H0 in reference to Santa
R5Kn8 TIL F1 driver Kimi Raikkonen nearly bankrupted the Lotus team by being too good. His contract said that he would be awarded €50,000 for every championship point scored. Lotus thought their car would be so uncompetitive that year that it would not be a problem. Kimi went on to score 207 points.
wLGWY TIL Iceland was settled first by norse people. While Old Norse (the language) changed over time and became Norwegian, no such changes happened in Iceland. So Icelandic is more or less the same as Old Norse