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TIL that Victorians once used leeches to predict the weather, and it played a role in the history of weather forecasting. If the leeches hit the bell it indicated there was a storm approaching.

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MYOA TIL that Duke University scientists made rats able to detect infrared light by inserting a neural implant ino their brains
WyZo TIL Thanksgiving was moved in 1939 to the second-to-last Thursday (from the last Thursday) in November by FDR at the request of the president of Macy’s, to increase the number of shopping days before Christmas.
P1xQE TIL Checkless Chess is a variant of chess where check is illegal unless it is checkmate
MXgV TIL that the time separating Stegosaurus and Tyrannosaurus is greater than the time separating Tyrannosaurus and us!
grKQA TIL of Robert Levinson, who disappeared on March 9 2007, whilst working as a private investigator in Iran. Levinson flew to Kish Island to meet Dawud Salahuddin, a US fugitive, as part of a "unauthorised CIA mission" before disappearing. In 2011,photos of Levinson alive were sent to his family.