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TIL that The only difference between a hurricane and a typhoon is the location where the storm occurs. Hurricanes are from the Atlantic and Typhoons are from the Pacific.

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YQaP TIL the Canadian $100 banknote featured an Asian woman on the back using a microscope. People complained that it was stereotyping Asians as being good at technology. She was replaced with a Caucasian woman, and then more people complained that Caucasians were being favoured.
PYyXV TIL that around 11% of the world population was killed during the Mongol invasions.
jNolN TIL there is an object in the asteroid belt named after Moomintroll, the illustrated character created by Swedish-speaking Finnish illustrator Tove Jansson.
4X9A5 TIL that there are whales over 250 years old. For comparison, “Moby Dick” is 168 years old.
j6Qnj TIL 60,000 attended Carmen Miranda’s memorial and over 500,000 joined her funeral procession.