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TIL Glass actually neither a liquid—supercooled or otherwise—nor a solid. It is an amorphous solid—a state somewhere between those two states of matter. Glass atoms move too slowly for changes to be visible.

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plNA TIL that “cicisbeo” is the male equivalent to a “mistress!”
OoY5a TIL that adolescents who smoke marijuana as early as 14 do worse by 20 on some cognitive tests and drop out of school at a higher rate than non-smokers. But if they hold off until age 17, they're less at risk, and performed equally well as adolescents who did not use cannabis.
JOYB TIL There is an episode that consists entirely of the Hypnotoad. It’s 22 minutes long and ends with a voiceover saying “the audience will wake up remembering nothing and feeling refreshed.”
8ag1K TIL in 2005 the president of Georgia fired the country's entire traffic police force of around 30,000 officers due to widespread corruption.
jlOX TIL that “Eye of Newt” is not an actual eye, but an archaic name for mustard seed!