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TIL during the Dust Bowl, the US government launched dynamite into the sky in order to provoke clouds into producing rain

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vObK TIL that Alberta, Canada is a nearly rat-free province, and when a homeowner finds one it makes the news
LQKyr TIL that U.S. Vice President William R. King took the oath of office in Cuba in 1853 because he was too ill to travel to Washington, making him the only U.S. president or vice president ever sworn in on foreign soil, and he died less than a month later before ever serving in Washington.
v1P4r TIL that fans from the Italian football club Inter Milan brought a scooter to a match, planned to set it on fire and hurling it down through rows of seats
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