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TIL coordinated power shut off events like Earth Hour, Live Earth, and Planet Aid may actually increase carbon dioxide consumption as power companies struggle to cope with fluctuating electricity usage

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4XE55 TIL of Cocaethyline, a substance produced by the body when cocaine and alcohol are consumed together. Its euphoriant properties are so powerful it causes feelings of acute well-being almost universally among users, but it's also about 25 times more likely to kill you than cocaine alone.
16Mj4 TIL about "fridging," a term coined by Gail Simone in 1999 after Green Lantern Vol. 3 #54, where Kyle Rayner finds his girlfriend murdered and stuffed in a fridge. The term highlights how female characters in comics are disproportionately harmed or killed for advancing the male protagonist's story.
5VKV8 TIL about Saint Guinefort, a legendary 13th-century French greyhound that received local veneration as a folk saint.
8aOwb TIL: Africa has a "stonehenge" older than Stonehenge. Built "to mark the summer solstice and the arrival of the monsoons," Nabta Playa, "the oldest stone circle in the world" is among "Earth’s oldest astronomical" observatories. Over 7000 years old, it was found mostly-buried in sand in the 1970s.
mwxp TIL That there’s a tv channel in America named “History” and airs a show about Aliens shaping human civilization.