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TIL modern Air Conditioning exists out of the need to dehumidify. Cooling was a fortunate side effect.

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YpjaZ TIL: More than Half of all U.S. Presidents have come from just 4 states - New York, Ohio, Virginia, and Massachusetts.
7r9eM TIL that there is 1400 tons of unexploded (and rapidly degrading) munitions 1.5 miles off the coast of Kent (UK). If it explodes, it would likely cause a bigger explosion than the one in Beirut.
9MB TIL That In May 2009, the world record for length of time That a paper glider stays in the air was set by Takuo Toda of Japan, whose paper plane glided along for 27.9 seconds.
8abAa TIL there is a colony of wild wallabies living in Hawaii. In 1916 they were flown into Oahu to be a part of a private zoo, but escaped after neighborhood dogs attacked (and killed one of) them.
QJW9p TIL the town of Nördlingen, Germany is embedded with millions of microscopic diamonds, a result of an asteroid, which struck the area some 15 million years ago.