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TIL that a haboob is a specific type of a dust storm or sandstorm that is generated by thunderstorm outflows. Haboob means blasting/drifting in Arabic.

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v1ORB TIL owing to the severity of death threats from local Mafia, the public prosecutor for Sicily has 42 bodyguards.
JnmV TIL “In 2013, Star Wars was translated into Navajo, making it the first major motion picture translated into any Native American language”
Z8Dm4 TIL in 2005 the Australian Government banned the use of the word 'Mate' in Parliament. However, the ban lasted all of 24 hours before it was repealed after being described 'absurd and ridiculous' by the Prime Minister.
JeWQ TIL a father and young son were kidnapped and brought to a construction site where the kidnappers cut the father’s throat from ear to ear, shot the son 3 times, then the kidnappers buried them. The father escaped, walked ¼ mile, and flagged down a police officer. He survived. The son did not.
8aloV TIL: Food Allergies are now 2-3 times higher compared to 1997. We have also seen diagnosed anaphylactic (life threatening) food reactions rise 377 percent from 2007 to 2016. As of 2011, one out of thirteen kids have a food allergy. To this day, scientists are still dumbfounded over this epidemic.