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TIL that Carl Sagan lived in an Egyptian Revival home called The Sphinx Head Tomb in Ithaca, NY

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yQ5Ve TIL Clement Wragge, an Australian forecaster, was the first to give actual names to tropical storms and hurricanes . When the Australian government refused to acknowledge his system, he started naming the hurricanes after the the politicians he disliked or those that wouldn’t support him.
xVDO7 TIL that there is a bird called the Cream Coloured Woodpecker, also known as the Pikachu Bird. Males have the same colouration as Pikachu including the red cheeks. These birds are found in South America.
p8RkA TIL The deepest part of our oceans, the region from below 6000 km to the very bottom of the deepest sea trench, is known as the Hadal zone, named after Hades, the underworld of Greek mythology. More people have been to the moon than have explored the Hadal deep.
YpNZv TIL about "sexy primes", sets of prime numbers that vary from each other by 6. The name comes from a pun on the Latin word for six, which was sex. The lowest number set is (5,11), which is also today's date.
78AYM TIL The 65537-sided hexamyriapentachiliapentahectatriacontaheptagon is the largest known constructible polygon: that is, it can be constructed using a compass and an unmarked straightedge.