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TIL when there's less solar radiation, temperatures on Earth go up. This is because there's less solar magnetic shielding against cosmic rays, so radioactive carbon-14 in the atmosphere goes up. Evidence of this is trees contained more carbon-14 during the last Medieval Warm Period.

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VMa7Z TIL that a boy in the UK was born with only 2% of his brain. His parents were told he would live in a vegetative state, if at all; they had even prepared his funeral before he was born. By age 3, the boy's brain had grown to 80% the normal size. Now 9, he can read and do math.
N7ZbE TIL that the scene in IT: Chapter Two and in the novel where a group of teens assault a homosexual man and his partner before tossing one of them over a bridge to his death was actually based on a true story. Stephen King borrowed details from the real life event, and added Pennywise to it.
E1lQP TIL the French voted a monarchist majority into the National Assembly in the 1870's, which promised to restore the Bourbons. The heir, Henry V, agreed to accept as long as they replaced the tricolor flag with the old royal flag. Ensuing disagreement stalled things enough that they were voted out.
X0G8E Today I learned example.com is a reserved domain owned by IANA , created in 1999 (RFC 2606). The domain was set aside to provide an example name that doesn’t conflict with real domains. It can’t be sold or transferred and is a globally recognized placeholder for tutorials.
yVLL8 TIL That hand warmers work by making iron rust ,and we just Use the excess heat coming from that reaction!