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TIL: That FEMA monitors Waffle House's decision to close restaurants to gauge storm response

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Wvlo TIL The famous thumbs up from Vault Boy from Fallout is not just a gesture, but a method of measuring radiation from a nuclear blast.
v14yj TIL that due to poaching, female African elephants are evolving tuskless; about 1/3 of females in a Mozambique Nat'l Park were born tuskless with males evolving smaller tusks. They use tusks to compete for mating, dig for water and topple trees for food which in turn creates habitats and water holes
OoaBY TIL that 1 out of every 160 New Zealanders were involved in the production of the Lord of the Rings franchise.
W7GmN TIL Louis Eppolito, who played Fat Andy in ‘Goodfellas’ and a detective in ‘Lost Highway’ among other roles, was an NYPD detective who led a double life as an associate of the Five Families
LXe9 TIL Oil consumption is now below 1995 levels and the US is moving away from oil