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TIL Hong Kong has a color-coded warning system for rain

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jYrM TIL We are born with around 300 bones and then it decreases to 206 bones by adulthood after some bones have fused together.
mxjOx TIL the entire earth used to covered in ice, even the equator
Bg80K TIL that the Snotingas gave their name to the settlements of Nottingham, which were first recorded as ‘Snotengaham’ or literally ‘the homestead of Snot’s people.’ Over the years, the city’s name was gradually modified until it became known as Nottingham around the 12th century
mxVoY TIL about James Reavis, also known as "The Baron of Arizona," who almost swindled the U.S. government out of the entirety of Arizona. He forged numerous papers in Spain, Mexico, and the U.S. to prove that he "inherited" the land from a fictional family
JYej1 TIL, aroundf 2.1 billion years ago, there existeed several multicellular organisms, that were likely one of the first forays into multicellularity, they coincided with a brief moment of increased oxygen levels and went extinct after the levels dropped, they do not have any modern-day descendants.