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TIL Dust devils form as a swirling updraft under sunny conditions during fair weather, rarely coming close to the intensity of a tornado.

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1a8Q4 TIL Brad Pitt's foundation built 150 homes in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, many of which are rotting and structurally unsafe
rNB64 TIL a team of 3 students won $700K for using AI to decipher the first passages of a 2,000-year-old scroll; 1 of 800 scrolls that were carbonized by the eruption of Mt Vesuvius in 79 CE. Since their discovery in the 1700s, trying to read them proved futile because unrolling them by hand caused damage
l7En7 TIL that the fastest recorded tennis serve was by Australian player Samuel Groth, at 263.4 km/h (163.7 mph) in 2012.
LoKp TIL that in Soviet Russia, laser weapons were developed for cosmonauts to kill astronauts by burning holes through their space suit.
Ooxkg TIL a volcano 200 years ago killed at least 10,000 people in Indonesia and coated earth in a climate cooling layer of ash that blocked the sun