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TIL sand dunes can produce a low, audible droning sound

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woAP7 TIL about Charles Dickens’ son Frank, who joined the predecessors of Canada’s iconic Mounties after failing the British Foreign Office exams, losing his officer’s commission in the Bengal Mounted Police, and “squandering his inheritance on poor investments and disssipated living."
BrwXe TIL on April 18, 1930 the BBC made an announcement at the beginning of its daily radio program that there was no news. For the rest of the 15-minute time slot, the station played only piano music and it became known in history as The Day Without News’
jNMba TIL in the 1880s, 20% percent of autopsies performed in Iceland revealed echinococcosis, a type of tapeworm that can be passed from dogs to humans, causing blindness and severe complications. As a result, the city of Reykjavik had a ban on keeping dogs as pets for decades.
xMk5 TIL, Jimmy Doyle, a boxer who died shortly after a fight with Sugar Ray Robinson, took the fight to buy his mum a house. Robinson, kindly gave all the money from his next 4 fights to Doyle’s Mum, to buy that house. She spent the money on drugs and legal terms to try and sue Robinson for more money.
o9go TIL The shower of sparks seen during Space Shuttle launches are often assumed to be engine igniters but they’re actually part of the Hydrogen Burnoff System; a safety system designed to consume unburned hydrogen so it doesn’t damage other parts of the shuttle.