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TIL more rain falls on a Saturday than any other day, thanks to a seven-day dust cycle caused by traffic and industrial activity during the working week. Since Nature doesn’t generally follow 7 day patterns, they’re a human invention.

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Y7nXP TIL that the most powerful earthquake ever recorded caused a tsunami that traveled the whole length of the Pacific ocean, from Chile to Japan, in less than a day and was still strong enough at arrival that it caused casualties.
bNBa TIL there’s a school that train people with autism to become visual effects artists. Their credits include Captain America, Avengers and Game of Thrones.
KYkZG TIL that the US and Russia are only about 2.4 miles apart — separated by two small islands in the middle of the ocean — but because of the International Date Line, there’s a 21-hour time difference between them, so one island is almost a day ahead of the other.
DQVV TIL Pirate Bay supporters sent $5,000 of flowers to a professor that defended TPB in court, to give to his wife
M87m TIL the author of The Princess Bride also wrote the screenplays for Misery, A Few Good Men, Twins, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, and All The President’s Men.