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TIL the world's largest snowflake on record was 15 inches wide and 8 inches thick? It fell in Montana in 1887 and remains the largest snowflake ever documented.

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og6A TIL that Chinese mathematician Yitang Zhang could not get an academic job upon graduating, having to work as an accountant and a delivery worker for a New York City restaurant. He later went on to solve a math problem that had been unsolved for 150 years and won a MacArthur Genius Grant
69bX TIL Dave Grohl was invited to join “Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers” in 1994, but declined due to the upcoming debut album of Foo Fighters.
kJAw5 TIL that the maximum flying speed by an aircraft was reached on October 3, 1967 when the military jet North American X-15 set a speed record of 4,520 miles per hour.
oRgK8 TIL that George Washington died with a net worth of $594.2 million in today’s money, and drew a presidential salary of $25,000 (~$900k today) which was around 2% of the government’s budget at the time.
wL8Ro Today I learned that the "Ukrainian Insurgent Army" fought against the Nazis, the Soviets and the Polish Home Army, making it the only organization to fight the Axis, Comintern and Western Allies