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TIL: ARk Storm 2.0 (Atmospheric River Storm) will happen every 25 - 50 years, engulfing the great basin

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jDxp TIL of Antihydrogen, a material valued at 90 trillion dollars per gram, making it the most expensive material in the world.
waBW TIL the apples you buy in the grocery store are 5-12 months old. They are stored in a special low temperature, low oxygen (2%) environment, which preserves the nutritional content of the fruit.
VBXvG TIL in German, the word “umfahren” has two meanings: To drive around something or someone but also the opposite, to run someone over.
eoAD TIL: Hibernating bears don’t eat or drink, and thus don’t poop or pee, but they develop a fecal plug in their intestines that can grow to 7 to 15 inches long and 1 to 2.5 inches in diameter. They defecate when they emerge from hibernation. “Fecal plugs have a light odor that is not unpleasant.”
XVjE TIL That Muse’ Matt Bellamy recorded his unborn babys hearbeat with his iphone and that is what you can hear at the start of the song “Follow me.”