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TIL Cold weather retains less water than warm weather. That's how dew appears.

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1aAZd TIL that Volvo once intercepted the Superbowl commercials break by asking viewers to tweet to them every time a rival car Ad was on. One free car per commercial. They stole the spotlight by spending a fraction of what others did.
Ypgyd TIL there's a festival in India and Nepal solely to thanking dogs for their loyalty and friendship.
yVKB8 TIL the phrase "under god" wasn't in the original Pledge of Allegiance, and wasn't added until 1954
b6W1Z TIL of Snorri Thorfinnsson, an Icelander who was the first child of European descent to be born in the Americas, in the early 11th century. His parents were explorers Thorfinn Karlsefni and Gudrid Thorbjarnardóttir. He is one of the two main figures responsible for the Christianisation of Iceland.
gna4 TIL seeing a single extra upvote very early in a comment’s life could change a user’s mind about how they feel about a comment, regardless of what the comment actually said.