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TIL Andean farmers have predicted El Niño for centuries by observing whether the Pleiades star cluster looks fuzzy in June... a method confirmed by researchers in Nature in 2000, who found the fuzziness is caused by El Niño-driven cirrus clouds scattering the starlight

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