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99Pp TIL that those clouds that look like fish skin/scales are a pretty reliable indicator of a change in weather (often rain) in the next 6-12 hours
woY7E TIL Armadillos got their name from the Aztec word meaning "turtle-rabbit"
9wPrQ TIL that the first general release film to have a post-credits scene was “The Silencers” (1966). In the scene, Dean Martin’s character “Matt Helm” was lying shirtless on a rotating sofa along with 10 half-clothed women. He then kisses two women before rubbing his face and muttering, “Oh my god.”
ANGBa TIL In 1954, the CIA ordered Carcano rifle ammo for anti-communist forces. The leftover ammo and rifles were re-imported and sold wholesale to the public, including to Lee Harvey Oswald, who used them to assassinate JFK.
ae59 TIL that to show how Classical Chinese had become an impractical language, linguist Chao Yuen Ren wrote a 92-character poem in which every syllable has the sound “shi”. The poem “Shī Shì shí shī shǐ” translates to “Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den”.