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TIL San Diego hired a rainmaker to fix its drought in 1916. The floods that followed were the most devastating in the city's history.

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jNKWa TIL that the normal intelligible outdoor range of the male human voice in still air is 180 m (590 ft 6.6 in). The silbo, the whistled language of the Spanish-speaking inhabitants of the Canary Island of La Gomera, is intelligible under ideal conditions at 8 km (5 miles).
OnG7 TIL every year, Halifax gives a giant christmas tree to the people of Boston in gratitude for Bostons help during Halifax explosion recovery
ZwY4 TIL that the word bonfire means ‘bonefire’. Old bones were used as fuel into the 19th century.
d81pZ TIL that the Jeopardy sketch on Saturday Night Live was credited to Norm MacDonald, who in turn credits Eugene Levy for generously sharing the concept from SCTV which Norm watched as a child.
R7OOw TIL that despite being strongly associated with NASA and astronauts, freeze-dried ice cream was never taken on board any missions to space.