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TIL windsocks are used to tell the wind speed and not just direction

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6LnW TIL of “spite houses,” buildings constructed solely to irritate and spite neighbors.
E1nXP TIL that in 1958, Canada set off one of the largest intentional non-nuclear explosions in history to remove a rock in the middle of a shipping lane. A tunnel half a mile long was dug out under the ocean and filled with 2.75 million pounds of explosive.
4l1b TIL that The ‘de-militarized’ zone between North and South Korea is the world’s most militarized zone
p8QBA TIL as of 2020, there have been 15 astronaut and 4 cosmonaut fatalities during spaceflight. The current statistical fatality rate is 3.2 percent.
VBjkZ TIL that in 2002, Saddam Hussein won a referendum on his presidency with 100% of the vote. This narrowly beat the previous referendum in which he won 99.9%