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TIL Japan's reasons behind their involvement in WW2

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69Y88 TIL that virga clouds produce precipitation that evaporates before reaching the ground. These streaky clouds are often seen trailing below larger cloud formations, giving the appearance of wispy tails. Virga can occur with both rain and snow, they often create dramatic, beautiful visual effects.
mx80x Americans waste a lot of food — about 133 billion pounds a year, or roughly one-third of all the food produced in the U.S.
8wBa TIL that there is a plan to send fertilized frozen embryos to habitable planets nearby. The newborns will be raised by robots who will build a civilization while the babies are growing.
Oy46 TIL Dr. Seuss once wrote a satire against the antisemitism that happened in Germany. It is still read by many children obliviously to this day.
W71j9 TIL the Chinese version of instagram is literally called ‘LittleRedBook’, a pun based on Facebook and Mao’s famous book of quotes.