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TIL that "Master" is an honorific used to address boys that are too young to be called "Mister".

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E1jXx TIL there is a constant, and wildly chaotic, vortex at the south pole of Venus. At the cloud tops, the wind speed can reach 400km/hour.
vP1d8 TIL 'Ballooning' spiders are able to take off and fly through the air, without wind, by using a single line of web ejected into the air to propel them up the naturally generated electric fields in our atmosphere
N54b TIL there was an assassination attempt on FDR before he was initially sworn in, but the guy missed and killed the mayor of Chicago as they were shaking hands.
5Y1yQ TIL a group of amateur astronomers around the world hunt and track government spy satellites. Governments classify these top-secret missions, but a group of dedicated spy hunters tracks the satellites and publishes the data for fun.
yYal TIL that Exxon’s CEO has been fighting to stop fracking activity near his Texas home