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TIL free range chickens sleep in trees
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Today I learned that, while Katrina was the most destructive hurricane of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season, the strongest hurricane of that season was Wilma.
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TIL about the Royal Hawaiian Navy, which consisted of a single ship, HHMS Kaimiloa, and existed for about 5 months, from March to August of 1887. She only had a single mission- to sail to Samoa to seek an alliance. That mission failed, mostly due to colonial ambitions of world powers at the time.
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TIL about Blockbusting, a method used during the “white flight” era, where real-estate agents would fake a black person moving into a white neighborhood to scare the rest of the residents into hastily selling their houses at a loss. They then charged high prices selling the houses to black families
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TIL J.K Rowling was rejected by 12 publishers before Harry Potter and The Philosopher's Stone was accepted by Bloomsbury - and even then only at the insistence of the chairman's eight-year-old daughter.
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TIL Roald Dahl was the screenwriter for You Only Live Twice, a Bond classic.