TIL that, according to NASA, huge asteroid impacts (around the size of the Chicxulub asteroid, which is the one that killed off the dinosaurs) occur about every 50-100 million years. Chicxulub hit earth 66 million years ago. [source, comments]

It's so over

https://a-z-animals.com/blog/do-the-great-lakes-ever-completely-freeze-over-in-the-winter

Magari

TIL: Short Sleeper Syndrome is a gene mutation discovered by the University of Pittsburgh in 2014. They can function normally with less than 6 hours of sleep and never need to "recover" from lack of sleep as opposed to people who purposefully limit sleep. The mutation was given to mice and worked. [source, comments]

TIL the Oceanographic Museum at Monaco flushed decorative algae into the Mediterranean Sea, creating an invasive patch of algae that has now spread over 190km of coast. [source, comments]

Kein gutes Zeichen
https://www.srf.ch/news/international/palais-des-nations-lichterloeschen-bei-der-uno-in-genf

TIL 90% of the Earth's population live in the Northern Hemisphere [source, comments]