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TIL the Boeing factory in Seattle is so massive that rain clouds began to form inside the facility until a state-of-the-art air circulation system was installed

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kON5g TIL Elizebeth Smith Friedman, America’s first female cryptanalyst, worked as a code breaker who successfully broke up a Nazi spy ring across South America during the 1940s. FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover took credit for her work until reports were declassified in 2008.
NX49M TIL of the neenish tart - a type of pastry popular only in New Zealand, Australia and ... the Falkland Islands.
MeLgm TIL that Ganymede, Jupiter's moon, is the largest moon in the solar system and is larger than Mercury and Pluto. Also it is only slightly smaller than Mars and if it were orbiting the Sun rather than Jupiter, it would be classified as a planet itself.
9YwVG TIL that Ayatollah Khomeini of Iran was well-known for calling the US the "Great Satan". He also called the Soviet Union the "Lesser Satan" and Israel "Little Satan".
MQX0 TIL the US signed a treaty in 1977 banning the use of weather modification techniques for warfare.