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TIL In the 12th century Chinese Polymath Shen Kuo correctly theorized that rainbows are caused by the refraction of sunlight through water droplets

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ZpXRv TIL that Theodore Roosevelt became the first American to win a Nobel Prize after he helped broker the end of the Russo-Japanese War.
XNKE TIL of the great auk, an extinct bird resembling penguins and living in the north. The last pair were strangled to death in the 19th century.
690eJ TIL The British government safeguarded the supply of fish and chips during the first and second world wars. It was one of the few foods in the UK not subject to rationing during the wars.
jo6R TIL that the amount of energy consumed by U.S. homes for air conditioning has doubled in the past 12 years and now accounts for nearly 20 percent of our electricity use.
VOR4 TIL of Java’s “Sex Mountain” where pilgrims pair up with strangers to improve their luck in business