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TIL that clouds can move faster than 160 km/h

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YGx TIL in Germany there exists the Waldkindergarten: preschools held entirely outdoors in a forest, regardless of weather conditions
OGJBg TIL approximately 98% of all mammalian species do not menstruate. These "oestrous" species reabsorb endometrial tissue at the end of the infertile cycle. Making many aspects of menstruation poorly understood and development of treatments for menstrual disorders limited.
maNE TIL chocolate milk was invented by an Irishman while visiting Jamaica in the 1680s. Locals mixed cocoa with water - which Hans Sloane found nauseating - so instead he mixed it with milk to make it more pleasant. He brought the recipe to England, where it was made and sold by pharmacists as medicine
EORo TIL that while filming the Shawshank Redemption, the American Humane Association objected that feeding the live maggot to the crow was inhumane towards the maggot, and required one be fed that had died from natural causes.
M7BXV TIL that Queen Victoria was the shortest of all British monarchs with height of only 1.52 m