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TIL there are ~2 million more people living in California, than there are in all of Canada.

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x66lw TIL since the 1940s, the US government sends special planes into the eyes of hurricanes to track their path. They fly through them, continuously, for the duration of the storm. The data collected from the plane is the only way to precisely locate the eye of the storm. It’s called fixing the eye.
pwW8 TIL That other than humans, ravens are the only other animals that act silly when alone just for the sheer pleasure
9RkG TIL one of the founding members of modern Wicca pretended to raise the dead by reading a Swiss roll recipe backwards.
Eg4Lp TIL that the French military has a long tradition of organising brothels for its soldiers, both at bases and near front lines, including in the Algerian and Vietnamese wars. The last one at a base closed in 2003
M7MnK TIL The first stenotype machine (the machine used by court reporters to type shorthand) was invented in 1830.