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TIL that the “calm before the storm” is a real phenomenon that occurs when warm, dry air descends from altitude over the storm front, which blankets and stabilizes the surrounding region.

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d85jj TIL that the sound commonly attributed to the Bald Eagle is actually the call of a Red-Tailed Hawk, whereas the Bald Eagle sounds more similar to a... Seagull
gr7wA TIL Benjamin Franklin was fond of dating older women, (in)famously writing 8 reasons why they were better than their younger counterparts. Among them, he stated that they naturally provided birth control, were discrete, and could not be distinguished from younger women from the girdle downwards.
wLymM TIL that Noshir Gowandia, one of the prinicipal designers of the B-2 bomber is serving time for espionage.
gMkp8 TIL that the Life expectancy number we know for the middelages includes the infant mortality, so 13th-century English nobles had 30 year life expectancy at birth, but when they reached the age of 21, they would normaly have a expectancy of 64.
OGb91 TIL that Anguilla makes more than 10% of its GDP from fees collected for registering .ai domains by artificial intelligence companies.