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TIL it is possible to have temperatures below absolute zero, but they are actually hotter than any positive temperature

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XEWOE TIL that Paul Salopek is on a 24,000 Mile Walk Across the Earth. He started in Africa and is now in China. Retracing the journey of mankind. It’s called out of Eden Walk.
1aARr TIL The world’s first mobile phone call was made on April 3, 1973, when Martin Cooper, a senior engineer at Motorola, called a rival telecommunications company and informed them he was speaking via a mobile phone.
ANxnw TIL the average high-school graduate will earn about $1 million less over their lifetime than the average four-year-college graduate.
d8b4K TIL lizards in areas hit by hurricanes have evolved grippier, bigger toe pads in order to hang on against high winds, even within one generation. Researchers studied 188 anole lizard species in 70 years of hurricane data. In areas spared by hurricanes, lizard toe pads were smaller.
X7ZE TIL William Kamkwamba aged 14, learnt how to build an electricity-producing windmill from spare parts and scrap from information gained in library books, after being forced to drop out of school due to poverty.