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TIL some winds have names. They are recognized in certain parts of the world.

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OolMX TIL a local folk remedy in Boho, Ireland was to place soil from the local church under a pillow while you slept to cure infections. In 2018 a microbiologist found the churchyard's soil contains a previously unknown strain of streptomyces which can be used to create antibiotics
X0oBQ TIL that the longest lightning bolt ever recorded was 440 miles (708 km) long, nearly stretching from one end of Brazil to the other. The lightning bolt occurred on October 31, 2018, and broke the previous record of a 199-mile (321 km) lightning bolt recorded in the US state of Oklahoma in 2007.
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