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TIL Hurricane season is in late summer because that’s when the temperature difference between the sea surface and the air above is the greatest.

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0wb4p TIL NFL running back Robert Edwards was fresh off a 1,000 yard rookie season when he destroyed his knee in a beach football game at the Pro Bowl. His NFL career was ruined and his team, the New England Patriots, would go on to win 3 Super Bowls in the next 6 years without him.
WZX8 TIL that each state in the USA is legally allowed to form their own State Defense Force that is meant to be used for the protection of the state. This is independent from the National Guard and army and only 21 states have their own independent State Defense Force.
neL0Y TIL about pan-human love. In past 300k years, we overlapped with 6 known human species. All but us now extinct, though we interbred and carry the DNA of at least two (Denisovans, Neanderthals). Some Neanderthal skeletons carry our DNA too. Denisovans and Neanderthals mixed separately from us also.
X0aNk TIL the Lord Howe Island stick insect, once thought extinct due to rats from a shipwreck, was rediscovered in 2001 and successfully bred in captivity, saving the species from extinction.
E5dX TIL Ronald Reagan carried the card containing nuclear launch codes with him in his pockets; after his attempted assassination, the card was found lying in one of his shoes outside the Emergency Room, unsecured.