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TIL tree rings can reveal the dates of historical hurricanes

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KAaJ TIL that the CIA operation to invade Cuba and take down Castro was called “Operation Castration”
LJYd TIL that during the Great Famine, Ireland continued to export enormous quantities of food to England. This kept food prices far too high for the average Irish peasant to afford and was a major contributing factor in the large death toll from the famine.
epdJ5 TIL that the actual landmass the state of Rhode Island is named after is more commonly known as Aquidneck Island.
69Knl TIL: Nintendo and Sony collaborated in the early 90s on a CD-ROM console called Nintendo Playstation, which was never released, but repurposed into the Sony Playstation
KObLa TIL The band ‘Tool’ have a “secret album” called “The Holy Gift.” If you listen to their album “Lateralus” in a different order of tracks, the songs flow into each other even better, and and they make different musical themes from the original.