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TIL that the year 1816 was referred to as the “Year Without a Summer” due to global cooling from a volcano eruption the year before. Snow fell in July and the Northeast U.S. was enveloped in an orange fog.

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MeVOW TIL of the "Monkey Love Experiments" where infant monkeys were housed with two artificial mothers: one, made only of wire, dispensed food, while the other had no food but was made of soft terrycloth. The monkeys spent nearly all of their time clinging to the soft mother despite the lack of food.
lyK7 TIL the TV show “The Amazing World of Gumball” had a Chinese ripoff called “Miracle Star”. Gumball recently aired an episode calling out and attacking its Chinese ripoff.
EKZp TIL Following Fight Club ‘​s release, several fight clubs were reported to have started in the United States. A “Gentleman’s Fight Club” was started in Menlo Park, California in 2000 and had members mostly from the tech industry.
looMV TIL California accounted for nearly half of the U.S. solar electricity generating capacity in 2015
9w8Mr TIL That Killer Whales or Orcas are Dolphins