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TIL Colorado’s Department of Transportation regularly shuts down one of its major interstates on sunny mornings due to extreme sun glare

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4Xd1X TIL Analysis of the world's most popular bottled water brands found that 90% of bottled water contains microplastics (tiny pieces of plastic)
ANLbB TIL about the Tiger Keelback snake, one of the very few poisonous-venomous snakes in the World
6E9ll if the Sun were 'shut off', Earth's surface temperature would drop by a factor of two about every two months. The current mean temperature of the Earth's surface is about 27 °C / 81 °F. This means in two months the temperature would drop to -123 °C / -190 °F, and -189 °C / -324 °F in four months. So basically except some bacteria seem to be capable of surviving at extremely cold temperatures in space, we humans would die pretty quickly.
8a0kL TIL that AT&T in 1993 released an ad campaign which predicted online e-book sales, satellite navigation, email, video calling, ticket booking services to a very high accuracy
yQB4J TIL: There are no names given to the numbers between googol, skewer’s number, centillion, and googolplex. And, there is apparently no Global agreement on naming large numbers.