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TIL that Gore-Tex is composed of the material commercially know as Teflon. It has tiny perforations that will pass water vapour but not droplets.

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rGm0 TIL that the girl who voice acted Lilo in Lilo and Stitch went on to play the creepy girl in The Ring.
QJDxk TIL of Lewis Fry Richardson. He derived many of the complex equations needed for weather prediction in the 1920's. However, the math was so difficult that to predict the weather six hours in advance, it took him six weeks to do the calculations.
1apxX TIL that on August 9, 1965 Singapore was expelled from Malaysia and becomes the only country to date to gain independence unwillingly
6ErpJ TIL the first known use of performance enhancing drugs (PEDs) in baseball was in 1899, when Hall of Fame pitcher Pud Galvin received an injection of crushed dog and guinea pig testicles
OXM1 TIL an Alabama school tried to ban ‘The Diary of A Young Girl’ by Anne Frank in 1983 because, according to the board’s records, it was “a real downer.”