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TIL "30% chance of rain" doesn't mean that 30% of the area will get rain or it'll rain for 30% of time. It is multiplication of confidence and area. For ex if a forecaster is 50% confident that 50% of the area will receive rain then the forecast would read "a 25% chance of rain" for given location.

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Lk7XP TIL Jiddu Krishnamurti was revered as a prophet from childhood, but during a ceremony meant to establish his messianic status to the world he shocked his followers by renouncing his "coming", dissolving their organization, repudiating organized religion, and denouncing the concept of saviors.
6EPeY TIL that Jay Leno had nowhere to live when he first got to LA and would hide in the closets at open houses until the realtor left; allowing him to illegally have a place to stay for up to 3 days sometimes.
R7Pb9 TIL - UK officials once discussed resettling 5.5m Hong Kong Chinese in Northern Ireland during the height of The Troubles
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yQPyw TIL of general Thomas Farrell, who demanded to hold the core of the first nuclear bomb in his hands before it was assembled. He later signed the Nagasaki bomb: "To Hirohito, with love and kisses, T. F. Farrell." This is the only love note written on a nuclear bomb used in war.