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N7VlQ TIL Fresh snow absorbs sound, lowering ambient noise over a landscape because the trapped air between snowflakes attenuates vibration. That´s why it gets so quite when it snows.
awv8b TIL Nagasaki was not the primary target for ‘Fat Man’. The neighboring city of Kokura was the intended target, but due to unfavorable weather conditions, Nagasaki was bombed instead.
BgEbD TIL how one Japanese artist spent six months trekking 3000 miles through Japan with a GPS tracker to spell out ‘Marry Me’ across islands
Klkw TIL That there is a large black market for chocolate pies in North Korea.
pLbO TIL that Hampshire college students spend the morning of Easter Sunday hunting for (and drinking) kegs of beer hidden in woods near the campus. It’s called the Easter Keg Hunt.