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TIL Poison translates to Gift in German

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kJAN5 TIL atmospheric rivers are typically several thousand kilometers long and only a few hundred kilometers wide, and a single one can carry a greater flux of water than the Amazon River.
DnLY TIL that Nirvana was kicked out of their own release party for Nevermind because of a food fight.
1a6LX TIL Einstein theorised a machine to communicate with the future, the Tachyonic antitelephone.
b9nm0 TIL: Each year The U.S. plants at least 1.6 billion trees or about 6 trees for each one used.
loeVN TIL Before toilet paper was invented, Americans used to use corn cobs.Alternatively, they’d use periodicals like the Farmers Almanac, which was designed with a hole so it could hang in outhouses.