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

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M7NN8 TIL that Japan’s Imperial line has Korean roots
5Vwxr TIL that Frank Zappa intended his 1982 song “Valley Girl” to be a mocking satire of California’s teen culture, but ironically, the song’s success instead popularized the “valley girl” accent nationwide. So much so, that a film titled “Valley Girl” was released a year later.
7lEL TIL our emotions and states of mind are influenced, and even produced, by the nerves and bacteria in our guts.
5YE8P TIL about the "Squirrel Cage Jail" in Iowa, a three-story rotary jail that actually turned (and could cut off your limbs if you hung them out of the cage when it turned). It took five minutes for it make one revolution.
NjgN TIL all new employees and recently-promoted executives at the Japanese company Dentsu have to climb Mount Fuji. This has happened every July since 1925.