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TIL of Hurricane Bawbag. It was a storm that hit Scotland in 2011 and was named after the Scottish word for scrotum.

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nemb9 TIL Wealthy Russians hire fake ambulances with luxury interiors for $200 an hour to get through traffic.
P1nJg TIL about the Messian Salinity Crisis, where the closing of the straight of Gibraltar 5 million years ago led to the Mediterranean Sea drying up and global sea levels rising by up to 10 meters
5YrOk TIL An elderly man in China tried to buy a train ticket using currency not in circulation since 1949. He wanted to pay for a train ticket costing 12.5 yuan with a 500 yuan banknote and was informed his 1943 note is no longer legal tender. They are now worth over $100
pY7aA TIL that a rooster killed a Philippines police officer in 2020
JPE8 TIL Venus spins the opposite direction as the other planets in our solar system and may have been a drifting planet we “adopted”.