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TIL the Seinfeld episode The Implant popularised the term "double dipping", George gets in a fist-fight over the act

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x66lw TIL since the 1940s, the US government sends special planes into the eyes of hurricanes to track their path. They fly through them, continuously, for the duration of the storm. The data collected from the plane is the only way to precisely locate the eye of the storm. It’s called fixing the eye.
08PM TIL a couple in Japan on their morning walk stumbled upon a life-sized sex doll wrapped in plastic they mistook for a corpse. It was not until later that afternoon when police pathologists cut open the wrapping that they realised it was not a real body.
neOZ9 TIL that in countries, the suffix -stan generally means 'home of' in ancient Persian. An example would be that Afghanistan means 'Home of the Afghans.'
PngL TIL that during the Nazi occupation of France, Hitler did not destroy the Canadian Vimy Memorial and told the Allies that it remained intact, as he admired the peaceful nature of the sculpture
R59nj TIL that everyday about 100 Americans lose their lives on the road