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TIL Top Gear featured how NASA can make its own weather.

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rEye TIL “freeway” Rick Ross was a cocaine kingpin in 1980’s Los Angeles, at one point making 2-3 million dollars a week. The kicker? He was illiterate and his cocaine supplier was the CIA, who sold cocaine to illegally finance the Nicaraguan Contras.
e0Aok TIL After watching Star Wars in 1977, James Cameron quit his job as a truck driver to enter the film industry
y0Wa TIL Norway knighted a penguin in 2008. He is the mascot and Colonel-in-Chief of the Norwegian Royal Guard, and his full name is Sir Nils Olav II
xV8Ag TIL noble gases on the periodic table are called "noble" because they don't react or generally interact with other elements, like "noble" aristocracy.
oBw0W TIL Japanese macaques or snow monkeys get their name because they live in the more snowy areas of Japan. Snow monkeys are the most northerly-living primates, other than humans, and they are known to congregate around thermal springs (onsen) in winter. They also enjoy rolling snowballs for fun.