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TIL changing another country’s weather is classed as a war crime under the Geneva convention.

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78LAL TIL that the Mona Lisa became famous because of a heist by an employee at the Louvre
R7Bp1 TIL IBM launched a touchscreen phone with apps in 1993
Egm1W TIL of Allahakbarries - a cricket team founded by James Matthew Barrie - the author of Peter Pan. Doyle, Wodehouse, Jerome, Milne - yes, those very famous writers!!! - played for the team. The team didn't perform altogether bad - sometimes they even won. Other times...
nX9b TIL some shots of the parade scene in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off were secretly filmed during an actual parade. The production’s float was inserted into the parade “unbeknownst to anybody, all the people on the reviewing stand. Nobody knew what it was, including the governor”
wLGK7 TIL that there is a massive complex of termite mounds in Brazil that are 4,000 years old and about the size of Britain