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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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kOGb4 TIL Banpo Bridge in Seoul, South Korea is the world's largest "bridge fountain". LED-lit fountains span each side of the nearly 3/4-mile-long bridge and shoot dancing rainbow-colored jets of water.
NXg0M TIL that there are more possible chess games than there are atoms in the observable universe.
9Yeb6 TIL At the height of their popularity in the 1990's baseball card manufacturers produced an estimated 81 BILLION cards per year. That's about 325 cards per every man, woman, and child in the United States.
xPvB TIL the first female American soldier was Deborah Sampson, who enlisted using her dead brother’s name to fight in the Revolutionary War where she was wounded; she cut a musket ball out of her own leg to avoid doctors finding out she was a woman.
R5Zd1 TIL that the NFL team the Buffalo Bills were in fact named after Buffalo Bill, the wild west showman/cowboy/buffalo hunter. I know it was probably obvious.