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TIL the largest observed snowflake was 15 inches / 38 cm wide (the average adult tibia (shinbone) is about 14 inches!). Witnessed by soldiers at Montana's Fort Keogh in 1887.

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E9V TIL The Girl Scouts of the USA have a “don’t ask, don’t evangelize” policy regarding sexual orientation
xww TIL- That a famine in Ethiopia from 1983-1985 killed around 400,000-1,000,000 people and that 56,000 tons of food donated by aid efforts from the West through Live Aid was left to rot in a port by the Ethiopian government.
KOew4 TIL that the the royal anthem could also be called “god save the king”
w7kM TIL The Hammer of Thor is one of the official religious emblems available for headstones in U.S. military cemeteries.
nel4r TIL the "rule" which says never to end a sentence with a preposition may derive from John Dryden's habit of translating his own English verse into Latin. He did so to "check whether his writing was concise and elegant, Latin being considered an elegant and long-lived language with which to compare."