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TIL that Israel attacked a US Navy Ship in 1967, killing 34 and wounding 171

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gMMpW A circumhorizontal arc often called a fire rainbow, is an optical phenomenon in which an ice halo forms by hexagonal, plate-shaped ice crystals in high-level cirrus clouds. The halo is so large that the arc appears parallel to the horizon, hence the name. When the sun is very high in the sky, sunlight entering flat, hexagon-shaped ice crystals get split into individual colours just like in a prism.
167Md TIL Equatorial Guinea built a complex of 52 identical mansions with helipads, one for every African leader attending the week-long African Union summit. The houses are all empty
MLRa TIL that Lady Gaga’s name came from a predictive text glitch that changed radio to lady.
ev7g TIL earthquake activity in Oklahoma increased from 2 a year to twice-daily over five years and scientists believe it’s because of human activity
aKrA TIL that In 70,000 B.C. Human beings almost went extinct; dwindling to as few as 40 ‘breeding pairs’ after the eruption of the Toba supervolcano!