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TIL that being exposed to even 0.01 mg/m3 of Tellurium will make you smell heavily of garlic for months, slowing research on it considerably

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J1pG8 TIL an entomologist in Colorado wrote a love song about the Cicada mating season to help people understand why they’re so loud.
BMne TIL A Megadeath is a unit of measurement. 1 Megadeath = 1 million deaths caused by nuclear explosion. It is also where the band got its namesake.
VBLX4 TIL there is a LARP party in Czechia, where you roleplay contemporary rural Americans
wLP1o TIL there are 4 animals who use sunlight as energy: the eastern emerald elysia (a sea slug), the mint-sauce worm, the oriental hornet, and the embryos of the spotted salamander.
5Y9mn TIL that the World Chess Federation rearranges tournament matchups so that Iranians never have to play Israelis, because Iran does not recognize the existence of Israel