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Today I learned a pole with a orange sock is called a wind sock. It tells you the direction the wind is coming from

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gMwN9 TIL about Issei Sagawa, a Japanese cannibal who murdered and ate a woman in 1981. He never served a proper sentence. In this article, Sagawa openly talks about his crime and urges to commit cannibalism again.
p8L1O TIL: The famous Curb Your Enthusiasm murder exoneration case ended up not using the footage as the defense. Time of day didn’t correlate, but cell phone location data provided the needed alibi.
nrk7 TIL - IBMs Watson had part of it’s memory Cleared because it learned to swear!
1gJ4 TIL that in The Beatles song “While My Guitar Gently Weeps,” neither George Harrison nor John Lennon plays the lead guitar part. Eric Clapton does.
1a4LP TIL the Sumerian language was spoken from 3000 BC all the way up until 100 AD