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TIL the US government utilized weather warfare during Vietnam

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wL9w7 TIL Michael Jackson was a virtuoso composer, despite being unable to read music or play instruments well. He wrote the the parts to his songs by singing and beatboxing into a tape recorder. "“He would sing us an entire string arrangement, every part. Had it all in his head, harmony and everything."
5Q6Q TIL The man who assassinated the founder of the American Nazi Party was sentenced to the least amount of years possible for murder, and was paroled after 4 years served after the presiding judge wrote a letter of support, the only time he did so in his entire career.
78GV7 TIL that in 2000 Andre Geim won the Ig Nobel Prize in Physics for levitating a frog using magnets. In 2010 he won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on graphene.
b97r7 TIL the only band to turn down touring with David Bowie was the one and only Kraftwerk in 1976.
4k9ja TIL that if you dug a hole anywhere in the united states through the center of the Earth, you'd end up in the Indian/Arctic ocean