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TIL the term “100-year flood” doesn’t mean a flood that happens once in a hundred years. It’s actually a flood that has 1% chance of happening within a single year.

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Z8xx4 Space is not empty, nor is it silent. While technically a vacuum, space nonetheless contains energetic charged particles, governed by magnetic and electric fields, and it behaves, unlike anything we experience on Earth. In regions laced with magnetic fields, such as the space environment surrounding our planet, particles are continually tossed to and fro by the motion of various electromagnetic waves known as plasma waves. These plasma waves, like the roaring ocean surf, create a rhythmic cacophony that — with the right tools — we can hear across space.
WEWL TIL that shortly after completing ‘Toy Story’, the chief creative staff for Pixar got together for a lunch meeting in 1994 that would become one of the most defining moments in the studio’s history. The Pixar team came up with 4 movies in a single hour-long lunch.
BredL TIL about Inedia, aka Breatharianism, which is the belief that human beings can survive without food or water and sustain themselves with sunlight and "prana".
rNe6o TIL about Kavachi, a submarine volcano in the Solomon Islands. It has been nicknamed "Sharkcano", as it's home to two species of shark that have adapted to living in its hot, acidic environment
pYep4 TIL that the Sojourner Mars rover is named after African American abolitionist Sojourner Truth through an essay contest and not because it was a temporary traveler, or sojourner, to Mars.