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TIL there's no automation in measuring snowfall - the US National Weather Service has thousands of volunteers with rulers

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49ZX TIL that Molotov Cocktails were named by the Finns after Vyacheslav Molotov, a Soviet politician, whom claimed over the radio that the Soviets were dropping food to the Finns, not bombs. Satirically, the Finns called Soviet bombs “Moltov bread baskets” and started making “Molotov cocktails”
1Wp8 TIL that the United States government made a film during World War II that explained the uses of hemp and encouraged farmers to grow as much as possible.
RAA8 TIL in the late 80s, Paramount Pictures planned to make a Doctor Who movie. Their top choices to play the Time Lord? Michael Jackson and Bill Cosby.
JYE64 TIL we don't know what Robert Hooke looked like because a pissed off Sir Isaac Newton "lost" Hooke's portrait after he died.
50En TIL “Stagecoach” Mary Fields, a former slave and the 1st African-American woman mail carrier employed by the US. Had a running bet at any bar for $5 and a glass of whiskey, she could knock out any cowboy with 1 punch. After 3 or 4 cowboys tried to take her up on it, nobody ever tried again.