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TIL most bad weather comes from a western direction

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W7OJX TIL Heat causes errors in the qubits that are the building blocks of a quantum computer, so quantum systems are typically kept inside refrigerators that keep the temperature just above absolute zero (-459 degrees Fahrenheit).
JYeL4 TIL that a week before the Rosa Parks incident, segregation on interstate buses was struck down after a black Woman Army Corps Private refused to give up her seat to a white Marine.
E175p TIL of couple Vladimir & Lidiya Guryev of Montclair New Jersey. They are Russian spies in pretense of being locals in the name of Richard & Cynthia Murphy. They arrived in US in mid 1990s and arrested by FBI in 2010.
yV7VV TIL: Petros, a wounded pelican adopted by the Greek island of Mykonos, warranted a court case for entrapment after he flew to another Island where locals wanted to keep him. Thanks to Petros there are now several pelicans living in Greece, though they aren't native.
4XJrR TIL men born in the East of Glasgow, Scotland, have a life expectancy of 54 years