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TIL Optimus Prime has died more than 25 times in the last 30 years across comics, cartoons, movies, and video-games. It has become a running joke among Transformer fans.

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5VWVp TIL A heat wave and heat dome are not the same. A heat wave is a prolonged period of abnormally warm weather. However, a heat dome occurs when a high pressure system stalls, trapping a huge mass of hot air underneath. It's like a lid on a pot, trapping the hot air and preventing it from escaping
9wpgQ TIL of BZ, a chemical warfare nerve agent first synthesised in 1952. It has an anticholinergic effect with frightening hallucinations lasting for days, with effects still present after weeks. It is also very easy to overdose on
1a6wr Electronic toys for infants that produce lights, words and songs were associated with decreased quantity and quality of language compared to playing with books or traditional toys such as a wooden puzzle, a shape-sorter and a set of rubber blocks, according to an article published online by JAMA Pediatrics.
4kN76 TIL that the novels of Brett Ellis, author of American Psycho, occupy a shared universe. Patrick Bateman first appears in 'Rules of Attraction', then in 'Glamorama' (in which he is noted as having "strange stains" on the lapel of his Armani suit) and even appears alongside Ellis in 'Lunar Park'.
RL98 TIL the blobfish – a fish repeatedly described as the world’s ugliest animal – actually becomes a pretty good-looking fish when submerged to 4,000 feet.