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TIL some weather balloon instrument packages contain prepaid mail bags, so if you find them you can post them back to the National Weather Service!

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7rOep TIL that Terry Fox started a marathon across Canada to raise money for cancer research. Today the Terry Fox Foundation has raised over $750 million in his name
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xxvb TIL that an unconfirmed nuclear blast in the Indian Ocean, called the Vela Incident, was detected in 1979 and never definitively explained
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