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TIL it snows in Hawaii

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9wngM TIL Dog hair is up to 80% warmer than wool but not elastic.
vPlw4 TIL that Warren Buffett loves Coke so much that he drinks about five cans a day. As a major shareholder, he once joked that a quarter of his body is made up of Coke.
Yl0r TIL before people knew the full extent of x-rays, women would get face x-rays in order to kill bacteria which would make skin look healthy and beautiful. After a while people who did this started developing tumors on their faces and some even died. Doctors also used this method for hair removal.
ADWAa TIL that Natalie Portman not only co-authored a paper called "Frontal Lobe Activation during Object Permanence: Data from Near-Infrared Spectroscopy" but that her birth name is Hershlag.
E1goW TIL that still today 50% of marriages are arranged worldwide.