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TIL There is a reply to “Liar, liar, pants are on fire”, it’s “I don’t care, I don’t care, I can buy another pair”

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nJj7 TIL At a point in history the human brain grew incredibly rapidly, doubling in size in just 2 million years and no one knows why.
1aVpd TIL in 2012 an extreme solar storm missed Earth by 9 days that could have caused nearly $2.5 trillion dollars in damage and loss of power for years on end. There is a 12% chance of a solar storm with the same magnitude to hit us in the next decade.
E1ado TIL that musicians formed the Music Defense League in 1930 to fight against movies with sound. They worried that without people playing music live at the movies, like in the silent era, they would lose jobs so they ran an expensive campaign arguing about how robots were taking over the world.
GY6W1 TIL they originally conceived Beavis and Butt-head Do America as a live action movie, with David Spade and Adam Sandler in mind to play the title characters.
7XLx TIL that trees in the red forest, a forest in the Chernobyl exclusion zone, are not decaying because organisms that recycle organic matter suffer from radiation as well.