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TIL of pizza farms, an educational farm where the ingredients of pizza are grown in one convenient location

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4Xme6 TIL In 1955, June Bacon-Bercey became the first African-American woman to receive a degree in meteorology; she went on to become America’s first female TV meteorologist.
nDPP TIL adult cats do not “meow” at each other - only at humans. Once a cat is no longer a kitten, it stops “meowing” and only “yowls” at other cats - specifically during breeding season.
Z8g0p TIL that “pipe dream” is a euphimism for opium dream
VMPY4 TIL over 8,000 pieces of music were secretly created in Nazi concentration camps; including symphonies, operas, and songs scribbled on everything from food wrappings to potato sacks. One prisoner composed an entire symphony on toilet paper using the charcoal given to him as dysentery medicine.
woMeP TIL that “fire rainbows” are real. They’re called circumhorizontal arcs and happen when sunlight passes through ice crystals in high-altitude cirrus clouds—creating vibrant, horizontal bands of color in the sky. I had no idea these existed until today.