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TIL the US government utilized weather warfare during Vietnam

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MeNMV TIL Jeff Goldblum can play piano and has a prolific jazz career
AKVx TIL of a town in Kazakhstan, residents of which suffer from an unkown anomaly: they fall asleep in broad daylight and suffer from hallucinations, dizziness, weakness and memory loss. Scientists call is a ‘sleep epidemic’ and can’t explain the reasons for this phenomenon.
XELYP TIL The word villain comes from the Latin word villa. A villain is a person from the village or common folk. For the wealthy it came to represent the uncouth, treacherous or even a scoundrel or criminal.
DNJv TIL there’s an annual lying competition in England, and competitors from around the world have five minutes to tell the biggest and most convincing lie they can. Politicians and lawyers are banned from entering because they’re thought to be too good at it.
Yp5mr TIL that there's a 78 year-old pharmacist, Bill Pagel, who collects Bob Dylan memorabilia. He owns 15,000 photos, 4,000 posters, and two houses that Bob Dylan lived in as a child.