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TIL Veerys can predict how bad a hurricane season will be more accurately than meteorological models. And they can do it months in advance.

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p7gO TIL that, as of June 1 2012, The List of Advanced Dungeons and Dragons 2nd edition Monsters is the longest Wikipedia article ever.
W9ro TIL that 12 states allow child support payments via credit card, yielding yet another pathway to rack up frequent flyer miles
WDr8 TIL former president Gerald Ford turned down contract offers from both the Green Bay Packers and the Detroit Lions so he could attend law school at Yale.
8ead8 TIL about Magdalena Solis, a serial killer in Mexico who in the early 1960s convinced the illiterate and poor town of Yerba Buena that she was the reincarnation of an Inca Goddess known as "The High Priestess of Blood" she partook in piking members of the town while alive and drinking their blood.
epZl5 TIL that Nauru, the third smallest country in the world (8sq miles) had a 10 year civil war in 1878 that saw the island's population fall from ~1500 to >1000, sparked by the introduction of firearms. It eventually ended when the German Empire intervened and confiscated >700 rifles.