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TIL: the water speed record hasn’t been broken in over 45 years

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M7YNa TIL nacreous clouds, also known as polar stratospheric clouds, are often visible in polar regions during winter. These rare clouds form at high altitudes in the stratosphere, about 15 - 25 km above the Earth, their stunning colors are caused by the diffraction of sunlight through tiny ice crystals.
1aa0W TIL that the US Navy had a warship named USS Ponce (bit of a different meaning in British English)
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R5KJ1 TIL Professional mourners are hired to attend funerals in some parts of the world. In China some even bring their own band.