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TIL the US government utilized weather warfare during Vietnam

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W7AVB TIL about Licorice McKechnie. A singer/songwriter in The Incredible String Band, played at Woodstock and disappeared in 1986. Last seen hitchhiking across the Arizona desert.
QJrbM TIL that boiling water extuingishes fire better than cold water. Explanaition in Comments
E1eOd TIL that African Romance is an extinct Romance language spoken in North Africa during the later centuries of the Roman and early Byzantine Empires, and several centuries after the annexation of the region by the Umayyad Caliphate in 696 AD.
P1MML TIL that a Florida man conducted a hoax for ten years, starting in 1948, that a 4.5m-high penguin was visiting Clearwater Beach. A biologist suggested that the tracks were genuine on account of how they matched animal behaviour. The hoax was revealed in 1988.
ZlPR TIL a British man spent three days pushing a Brussels sprout with his nose to the summit of one of the UK’s tallest mountains: “People definitely think I’m mad, and I’m beginning to think it myself.”