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TIL In 1967 the U.S military used cloud seeding to extend Vietnam’s monsoon season during the Vietnam war which was considered “outstandingly successful”.

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XdyP TIL cranberries don’t grow in bogs. The fields are flooded during picking to make mass harvesting more efficient as the berries float above their vines.
Eg6AV TIL Chamoy Thipyaso was sentenced to 141,078 years in prison but only ended up doing 4 years
5YaQD TIL that Chinese folk religion has a goddess of lavatories and concubines- Zigu Shen, also called 'The Purple Lady'. She was a concubine that was killed and buried in a latrine by a jealous wife
x6v00 TIL the only living queen grandmother in the world is in Bhutan
7rdk7 TIL John Carmack spent 1 year in Juvie for stealing computers from a school.