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TIL: Corn plants release thousands of gallons of water into the air every day as they grow (transpiration). This can change the humidity of the air and even the weather in the corn belt.

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9wKDX TIL in 1958 a military plane accidentally dropped an Atom Bomb on a farm near Florence, South Carolina. The nuclear reaction didn't occur, but there was still enough explosive to create a 25 foot crater!
VM5E4 TIL the first NBA draft took place in 1947 in Detroit, Michigan even though that city didn't have a team at the time.
7Kwp TIL In the UK there is a tv channel called Dave, the reasoning behind the name is because “everyone knows a bloke called Dave”
BgZ5y TIL that in 1916 during the Eater Rising in Dublin the opposing sides of the Irish Citizen Army and the British forces would cease firing every day to allow Park keeper James Kearney to feed the ducks.
69GMm TIL when Australia first joined Usenet in 1983, data was stored on tape and physically sent via air mail to the University of Sydney for dissemination. This was cheaper than an international data link then.