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TIL typhoons, hurricanes, and cyclones are all the same type of storm, they're just called differently depending on where they form

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NX71 TIL in a speech to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, the Iranian Vice President said that Zionists ordered gynaecologists to kill black babies, caused the Bolshevik revolution and control the international drug trade
e0PNb TIL In tropical rainforest ecosystems, dung is a very valuable and limited resource, so instead randomly searching for it on the forest floor, dung beetles actually wait by the anus of the monkey. They grab it as it falls out and actually fall to earth with it.
67AJ TIL that when a massive power outage struck southern California in the 1990s, Los Angeles residents called 911 to express alarm about strange clouds hovering overhead; they were seeing the Milky Way for the first time due to the lack of light pollution.
9wJZG TIL Highway hypnosis, also known as white line fever, is an altered mental state in which a person can drive a car, truck, or other automobile great distances, responding to external events in the expected, safe, and correct manner with no recollection of having consciously done so.
GYZDE TIL in the aftermath of Katrina, Mexico deployed 184 personnel to aid relief,including handing out 100,000+ meals and supplies. This was the first flagged and uniformed deployment of Mexican military personnel in the USA in 150 years.