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TIL, the 1996 Lake Huron Cyclone was a low pressure cyclonic storm which formed over Lake Huron in September of 1996.

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kJ6K7 TIL that the Simon and Garfunkel's song "Bridge Over Troubled Water" inverts the meaning of "troubled water" found in traditional African-American spirituals. The original line the song was based on was by Gospel singer Claude Jeter and referred to a bridge over "deep" water, not troubled.
xVnPo Today I learned,that in December of 1963 Pan Am flight 214 was struck by lightning and crashed near Elkton Maryland,killing everyone on board.
epKkg TIL that there is a special punctuation mark called the percontation point that can be used at the end of a sentence to indicate that the question is rhetorical. e.g. "Did you know about this؟"
0d6ly TIL the Allais Effect refers to the allegedly unexpected behavior of pendulums which is observed to occur only during a solar eclipse
P1kVE TIL in 2007, they interviewed Muri (the “I should buy a boat” cat)