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

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V1rm TIL 7 of America’s 10 most affluent counties surround Washington D.C.
pAk8 TIL of Coffee Flour. Made from Coffee cherries, the discarded fruit surrounding the coffee bean. Gluten free, high in fibre and protein, and produced from a source which is currently being discarded at a rate around 75% of production.
vOND TIL there is a bird that can imitate the sounds of chainsaws and car alarms.
0wjA5 TIL life is really older than the trees in West Virginia. About a century ago, the state was almost completely deforested from farming, logging, and wildfire. Of the 16 million original acres of forest, only 263 remain. Now it's covered in forest again.
69yZm TIL about the Meat-Shaped Stone - a Chinese sculpture carved from banded jasper during the Qing Dynasty and made to look like Dongpo pork - a popular Chinese dish.