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TIL cloud seeding is weather modification that changes the amount or type of precipitation

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xLZB TIL “&” used to be the 27th letter of the alphabet. The name ampersand comes from the fact that early 1800s school children reciting their ABCs concluded with “&” by saying “X, Y, Z, and per se and” (“per se” means “by itself”)
GAkk1 TIL: The "Duck Walk Killer". In 2018, two people were killed in the same neighborhood in Chicago on different dates. It was concluded the same gun was used and footage noticed that the killer had a distinctive toes pointed out walk which led the media to name them the Duck Walk Killer.
Wk11d TIL that the first female chief of the Cherokee tribe is named Wilma Mankiller
neBGG TIL Locals in North Carolina raise ostriches and emus for meat, eggs and leather, along with emu oil, which is a natural moisturizer with anti-inflammatory properties.
vPwB TIL Miyamoto Musashi single handedly defeated an entire school, killed the last heir, and invented dual wielding katana fighting at the same time.