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TIL Miami, FL has not reached 100F since 1942.

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jNdLa TIL In 1989, two teenagers found a new born baby abandoned on a doorstep, swaddled in towels with her umbilical cord still attached. They handed her over to authorities. She was less than 12 hours old. 20 years later, the abandoned child- now grown up, tracked them down and thanked them.
9RvX TIL giant rats have been trained to sniff out land mines in Africa. In Mozambique, they have already been instrumental in the removal of 13,000 mines, helping reclaim 1,100 hectares of land
yVoxe TIL: California geothermal energy plant, The Geysers, uses treated wastewater to recharge their reservoir
X9KP TIL that Dick is a nickname for Richard because, in Medieval times, one of the customs for coming up with a nickname was to create a rhyme or swap a letter. So Richard became Rick, which rhymes with Dick or Hick. Only Dick has stuck around as a proper name.
R7Pd7 Today I learned optimism is 25% inherited