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TIL - It is banned to use weather modification in warfare. The ban came after its use by the U.S. in the Vietnam War

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0dey5 TIL after tigers escaped from a zoo in Georgia and killed a man, advice was issued on what to do if you meet a tiger, including: don’t approach it, don’t run away, and don’t urinate
1W58 TIL that McDonalds turns away a higher percentage of applicants than Harvard.
W7yQB TIL that Hadrian renamed Jerusalem as Aelia Capitolina and converted Jewish temple to temple of Jupiter which caused a Jewish revolt against Roman Empire.
prnZ TIL Polo shirts were originally invented for tennis by famous player Rene “The Crocodile” Lacoste and only later adopted by polo players
Z8evY TIL that H1N1, the influenza strain that caused the 1918 flu pandemic, survived another 40+ years as a seasonal flu bug. It was finally “extinguished” by another flu virus, H2N2, in the 1957 flu pandemic. Even so, a “new” H1N1 emerged 50 years later to cause the 2009 “swine flu” pandemic.