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TIL that fire fighters and others who inhaled Ground Zero air essentially lost 12 years of lung function

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MeOPA TIL in 2009, speakers of Swabian German, a very distinct southern German dialect, voted Muggeseggele (=“scrotum of a housefly”) as the “Most beautiful Swabian word”, well ahead of any other terms. It is used to describe very small units of measure.
p8xep TIL that the US's National Weather Service has a computer model to predict storm surges due to hurricanes called the Sea, Lake and Overland Surges from Hurricanes model, or SLOSH.
XE5yP TIL that the country of Iraq takes its name from the 5000+ year old Sumerian city of Uruk, home of the legendary King Gilgamesh
loZQK TIL Electrons from an alkali earth metal can be dissolved in liquid ammonia, creating a shiny, gold liquid 'solvated electron' solution.
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