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TIL % chance of rain means the % of forecast simulations suggesting it’ll rain in your area.

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aw5lb TIL Mary Tyler Moore helped to make animal shelters no-kill in NYC by co-founding an adopt-a-thon organization called Broadway Barks
ep775 Til that the last time a Rolling Stones single reached No1 in the UK charts was Honky Tonk Women in 1969, despite them releasing 15 albums in the 53 years since then.
xDR1 TIL that spider silk is stronger than bone and half as strong as steel
epDNn TIL that one of the closest times mankind has been to nuclear war was in the 1950s when, among other things, US intelligence received reports of an identified flying object over Turkey- which was later identified as a wedge of swans
dDylK TIL in 2017, NASA successfully communicated commands 13 billion miles away to Voyager 1 and got it to fire up its thrusters which were not in use since 37 years