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TIL the world record for fastest, most drastic temperature change is 49 degrees Fahrenheit in two minutes.

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5V0jB TIL Pythagoras was a vegetarian. He believed that killing and eating animals sullied the soul and prevented union with a higher form of reality. Additionally, he felt that eating meat was unhealthy and made humans wage war against one another.
PMOG TIL Sacha Baron Cohen, acting as his Ali G character, interviewed a British PM and offered him a ‘joint’–which the PM accepted and smoked on the spot.
lVJB TIL “jaywalking” became a crime in the US thanks in part to campaigns by the automotive industry. In the wake of increased pedestrian deaths, they wanted to shift the blame for road accidents from automobile drivers to pedestrians.
oeJA TIL that in 1941, a British physicist guessed the major technical specifications of a Nazi bomber radio guidance system based solely on its code name, “Wotan”, and created effective countermeasures before it was even deployed.
e0bYL TIL of Compassion fatigue. It's characterized by emotional and physical exhaustion leading to a diminished ability to empathize or feel compassion for others, often described as the negative cost of caring