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TIL - Advertisers are digitally adding product placement in TV shows years after they come out promoting current campaigns/deals etc.

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M7ORA TIL about the Doppler On Wheels network where mobile Doppler radar trucks are used to collect data in snowstorms, in hurricanes, close to tornadoes, and other severe weather events
ANNEl TIL Lobsters don’t die from old age, they die from exhaustion.
nWxgG TIL that some of the stones used in the creation of Stonehenge were bluestones from the Preseli Hills in western Wales and may have been chosen for their acoustic properties.
M7kp0 TIL That The US Army Medical Corps Logo Uses the Historically Incorrect 'Staff and Snake' Symbol. In Greek Mythology, A Staff With One Snake Represents Healing and Medicine, but the Two Snakes Version (which is used by the USAMC) is Actually a "Herald's Rod" That Represents Diplomacy and Commerce.
wo5mW TIL North Americans have completely different definitions of frown than the rest of the world. For most of the world it's an expression done with the eyebrows, not the mouth.