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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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Y7mDv TIL Ebooks can't be lent or resold because buyers pay for a license to view the contents, not ownership of the ebook itself.
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VorB TIL Peter Ostrum, who played “Charlie” in “Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory”, only ever had one film role and made his living by becoming a veterinarian.
RxW6 TIL the German V-2 Rocket developed in 1944 was the first man-made object to enter space. Also the team which developed the V-2 were the key to land the first man on the moon.
OBkX TIL the Bronx Zoo once caged an African man