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TIL that November 5th 1999 was “Burn All GIFs” Day, when the internet banded together to put an end to the GIF once and for all. It didn’t work.

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QJPoM TIL some snow plow trucks in Alaska use heads-up displays that show where the road is under the snow, allowing workers to continue plowing roads in zero visibility, white-out conditions.
DoOe TIL A bear cub named Winnipeg was exported from Canada to the London Zoo in 1915. A little boy named Christopher Robin Milne loved to visit Winnipeg (or Winnie for short) and his love for the bear cub inspired the stories written by his father, A.A. Milne, about Winnie-the-Pooh.
AD014 TIL that the 1st title of “Where the Wild Things Are” was “Where the Wild Horses Are” - until Sendak realized he could not draw a horse. So he drew the Wild Things, modeled after his relatives.
R7v5j TIL that meteorologists rely in part on data from commercial planes to accurately forecast weather. Under European regulations, all large aircraft must carry Mode-S EHS an enhanced surveillance navigation apparatus. Data collected by this apparatus is used to extrapolate wind speed and temperature.
X0PQQ TIL that since 2020, a group of fifteen orcas have been ramming and biting boats in the Strait of Gibraltar, with four boats having been sunk and over 250 damaged.