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TIL that the US Government once experimented with seeding clouds to weaken hurricanes (Project Stormfury), ultimately learning that their method was just duplicating a process which already occurs naturally (eyewall replacement).

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JRdk TIL that postmortem photography or memento mori, the photographing of a deceased person, was a common practice in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
v508 TIL the Greek name for the Mosquito is Anopheles, translating to “good-for-nothing”
vPyKj TIL that there's a species of bird called the bar-tailed godwit that can fly non-stop for over a week!
dayd TIL: The odds of flipping a coin is actually 51/49. The odds of spinning a US penny is actually 80/20.
64bm TIL that on average 22 vets in the US commit suicide per DAY. The average age of these vets is 60, most likely making them veterans of the Vietnam War.