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TIL that a severe hurricane hit Houston, USA during World War II but was kept largely a secret to the public by government authorities to prevent Axis knowledge of lost industrial capacities in the area

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v1pWD TIL, the word Nintendo can be translated as "leave luck to heaven"
8ePe4 TIL if everyone on Earth sat down in the ocean at once, sea level would rise by 0.00012 of an inch
gMJo7 TIL it's possible for complex communications with someone who is dreaming. Researchers of one study found two-way communications during REM sleep is possible when study participants (having confirmed lucid dreams) answered questions correctly via eye movement - even solving simple math equations.
pYy7Q TIL about the Dyatlov Pass incident- A mysterious event where nine Russian hikers died in the Ural Mountains in 1959 under unexplained and bizarre circumstances, sparking decades of conspiracy theories.
G9wJ TIL a man named John Wesley Hyatt invented a replacement for ivory billiard balls. The balls were made of nitrocellulose, a substance prone to exploding when struck by things such as a pool cue.