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TIL that Dubai creates artificial rain regularly using cloud seeding, as natural rain is very rare. People are informed about the rains a day in advance.

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b9BB0 TIL Gillian Anderson's performance as Dana Scully in The X-Files sparked a phenomenon called the "Scully Effect" where the character's prominence inspired a measurable increase in the amount of women entering the scientific, medical, and law enforcement fields
8ePXX TIL manuscripts maintained by double cloisters where monks and nuns allied together and physically located next to each other had more repairs done to parchment (skin) tears and holes than standalone cloisters. Some repairs used the parchment holes as a starting point for illustrations
pQdp TIL that in 2013, someone in Chicago placed a $600 million trade 2 milliseconds after the Fed publicly announced they wouldn’t slow bond purchases. The markets skyrocketed and the trader made lots of money. There was one problem though. It would have taken 7 milliseconds for light to get to Chicago.
j6BDj TIL Romans wiped their butts with a sea sponge on a stick that they kept in a bucket of salt water or vinegar.
kOAN4 TIL The Olympic flag's colors are always red, black, blue, green, and yellow rings on a field of white. This is because at least one of those colors appears on the flag of every nation on the planet.