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TIL that at concerts in Finland, instead of yelling at the band to play Free Bird as a joke, they yell at the band to play Paranoid (by Black Sabbath)

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Zw4B TIL that regardless of what service you get your weather information from, almost all of the data comes from the same place. NOAA has the only nationwide weather radar and operates the only weather satellites in the US. It freely distributes it’s information into the public domain.
E1Y6o TIL that the fifth oldest person in history Jamaican Violet Brown who had lived to 115 years had a son who was 97 years old who was still alive when she was. Making him the oldest person ever with a parent. They both died in 2017.
WkBwX TIL in 1982, GM was toying with the idea of developing a car with a turbine engine that ran on coal dust due to the concern over rising oil prices.
LQmjp TIL the Sun sings. The Sun constantly emits sound waves, but space’s vacuum makes them inaudible to us.
PYm0L TIL that to celebrate his 6 millionth pound of dropped ordnance, Clarence J. Stoddard bombed North Vietnam with a toilet.