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TIL that the Icelandic language has a term, "gludda vedur" (glue-ca ver-tish), which describes weather that's nice to look at, but not nice to be out in. It loosely translates to 'window weather'.

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nevEP TIL: Upon exiting the Constitutional Convention Benjamin Franklin was approached by a group of citizens asking what sort of government the delegates had created. His answer was: "A republic, if you can keep it."
e0Nxb TIL that pregnancy is counted from the first day of the last period. So if you were to conceive in the week before your period, you’d already be approx. 3 weeks pregnant (assuming a 4 week menstrual cycle)!
yEow TIL that an active serial killer was a contestant on The Dating Game. (He won.)
epyn TIL that Dave Canterbury from Dual Survivor was fired from the show for completely lying about his military/survival experience.
Olo1 TIL that “Gravity Falls” from Disney and “Rick and Morty” from Adult Swim had a subtle crossover- When Stan accidentaly throws some objects into a portal in the episode “Society of the Blind Eye”, those objects come out of one of Rick’s portals in “Close Rick-counters of the rick-kind”