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TIL Hawaii is home to one of the least sunniest places in the whole of the United States- the "town" (CDP) of Hilo located on the Big Island which is also among the country's rainiest.

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GV84 TIL A robbery suspect fled into a darkened movie theater to escape pursuing police. He became so engrossed in the movie playing on screen, Robocop, that he failed to notice that police had evacuated all other patrons from the theater. When the lights came on he was taken into custody.
4XaBa TIL in 2009, Dame Vera Lynn reached the top of the UK album charts with ‘We'll Meet Again’, a compilation to coincide with the 70-year anniversary of the declaration of World War II. This meant that the 92-year-old was the oldest living artist to make it to number one in UK chart history
8av5X TIL Of ornithologist Ken Stager, appalled at the depredations by feral pigs upon an island's brown and masked booby colonies(reduced to 500 and 150 birds), procured a shotgun and blasted all 58 pigs on the island, saving the birds which rebounded to the largest colonies in the world(25k+ & 112k+).
OGGgR TIL that lobe-finned fish are more closely related to humans than to fish such as trout or sharks!
k8x5 TIL Gordon Ramsay played in charity football match, and had to be taken off injured after being targeted by the opposition