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TIL it is statistically harder to get a job in the FBI than it is to get accepted into Harvard

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vPYQr TIL Many formulas exist for Wind Chill. The current one was only implemented in 2001. It is calculated for a bare face, facing the wind, while walking into it at 5.0 km/h/3.1 mph. It corrects the officially measured wind speed to the wind speed at face height, assuming the person is in an open field
8agBZ TIL The Uniform Monday Holiday Act (Pub.L. 90–363, 82 Stat. 250) is an Act of Congress that amended the federal holiday provisions of the United States Code to establish the observance of certain holidays on Mondays (including Memorial Day, formerly May 30th). Signed: 6/28/1968; Effective: 1/1/1971
djOZ TIL there was a massive ancient civilization in Illinois. In 1250 the lost city of Cahokia was larger than London. Today more than 120 massive earthen mounds are still located on the site.
VM1kG TIL David Bowie, fuelled by an "astronomic" cocaine habit and subsisting on a diet of peppers and milk, spent much of 1975–76 "in a state of psychic terror."
D1d1Y Today i learned that a man was arrested after airport security became suspicious of bumps found under his pants which turned out to be 64 alive birds,and 2 dead, stitched into the lining near his groin.