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TIL: In 536 A.D., there was a worldwide dust cloud that blocked out the sun for a year, resulting in widespread famine and disease.

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QJpAa TIL leading up to Pearl Harbor the US lost track of Japanese aircraft carriers, observed the Japanese consulate burning documents, encountered hostile submarines near Hawaii and had reports of a cluster of aircraft 137 miles north of Oahu, yet only realized an attack was under way when bombs dropped
JrGk TIL two weeks after Hurricane Katrina, a task force rescued around 1400 frozen embryos stranded in a hospital without power. The embryos were considered to be people under Louisiana law.
04ap TIL UPS trucks almost never take left turns, the result of a route-optimization program that has saved an estimated 10 million gallons of gas since 2004.
990X TIL the term Gaslighting - Lying to, or misinforming somebody about events or facts with the purpose of making them doubt their memory or sanity.
8rBL TIL The point of giving back to back life sentences is so that if evidence is overturned in a murder for one sentence; the convicted must still serve for the other(s)