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TIL 2024 is a Tetrahedral (or Triangular Pyramidal) Number

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6kOX TIL the NFL has no written rule against female players; women would in fact be allowed if they met the league’s eligibility requirements.
nemaG TIL during the Vietnam War, the U.S. carried out Operation Popeye, a "cloud-seeding" mission to stimulate clouds in Vietnam to increase rainfall and lengthen the monsoon season. After the operation was declassified in 1974, the United Nations banned the weaponization of weather.
Nkg6 TIL of a thousand year old rosebush in Hildesheim Germany. It even survived world war two, despite being bombed by the allies.
7QrL TIL there’s a huge cave dug by elephants: Kitum Cave
9O9D TIL When Bill Gates first showed off Windows 98’s ability to use Universal Serial Bus (USB) to connect a scanner while the computer was still running, something revolutionary at the time, the computer crashed.He joked, “That’s why we’re not shipping it yet.”