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TIL Hawaii’s ecosystem has no seagulls
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TIL I learned that sometimes in the United States and Hungary, the phrase “The devil is beating his wife” can be used to mean the sun is shining while it is raining out.
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TIL The word 'zombie' is never spoken in Romero's Night of the Living Dead. Romero himself didn't initially consider the antagonists in the film to be zombies, later saying "when I made the first film ... To me, zombies were still those boys in the Caribbean doing the wetwork for [Bela] Lugosi."
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TIL that Uranium is the heaviest element in nature.
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TIL Lars Onsager (Nobel Laureate in Chemistry) taught physics courses that were so difficult and incomprehensible they were nicknamed "Advanced Norwegian I" and "Advanced Norwegian II."
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TIL that Oscar The Grouch is actually orange. He only appears green because of the mold and moss covering his fur from years of living in a trash can.