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TIL The Northern lights make an audible sound in the atmosphere

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nendr TIL the word emoji comes from Japanese e (絵, "picture") + moji (文字, "character"); the resemblance to the English words emotion and emoticon is purely coincidental.
4km6w TIL that Doug Kenney, co founder of the National Lampoon and writer of Caddyshack was known to be suicidal, fell off a cliff while walking in Hawaii. His good friend Harold Ramis said, "he probably fell while looking for a place to jump"
AD87 TIL: Gas stations (and other merchants) can’t have a “minimum purchase amount” when you use a credit/debit card…regardless of what they try to tell you…
PYP5L TIL Carl Linnaeus' corpse is the model specimen for the human race. In 1959, taxonomist William T. Stearn officially made Linne, the founder of his discipline, the ICZN lectotype for homo sapiens, and his skeletal remains are now the benchmark for what a modern human is and looks like.
Dj8j TIL of the Dyatlov Pass Incident. The mysterious unsolved death of 9 hikers who tore through their tents naked in sub-0 temperatures. 7 died of hypothermia, one of a fractured skull, one female team member had her tongue and eyes missing. Offical cause of death: “unknown compelling force”