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TIL New York City is actually rainier than London

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NoLQ TIL Charles Darwin married his first cousin Emma Wedgwood, before having 10 children, three of which died before the age of 11. This lead him to wonder whether close genetic matches had an impact on health, adding to his theory of evolution and the passing of traits to offspring.
wLQ67 TIL the 1947 classic "It's a Wonderful Life" was a box-office flop, and didn't become popular until the late 70's when its copyright expired and TV channels could play it for free.
rRPZ4 TIL about Dumah, the angel of silence and of the stillness of death, in Rabbinical and Islamic literature. Dumah is described as the thousand-eyed angel of death, armed with a flaming sword, having authority over the wicked dead. Dumah is also the Aramaic word for silence.
0wWMj TIL Japan never signed a peace treaty with the Soviet Union after World War II, and is technically still at war with Russia today.
gBp9 TIL that while Australia might have all kinds of deadly animals, the entire continent has been rabies free since 2010.