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TIL The Butterfly Effect isn’t meant to illustrate how small events may have far-reaching consequences - it’s about the limits of predictability, and how we can’t be absolutely certain of the outcomes of any calculations related to the weather.

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9xXD TIL the Paris Mosque helped Jews escape the Nazis by giving them Muslim IDs
0dpgA TIL the Army of the United States is not the same as the US Army. The Army of the US is one of four components, also including the Regular Army, the Army Reserve and the National Guard. If you're drafted you go into the Army of the US, but it's been dormant since 1973.
Pnln TIL: There’s an island in the Bahamas famous for its swimming pigs
OG8yg TIL breast milk changes composition when the baby is sick.
o4wA TIL We see the colors that we do because that is just about the only spectrum of light that passes through water, the area where eyes first evolved. There hasn’t been any evolutionary reason on land to see any broader spectrum.