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TIL Weaponizing weather is against the Geneva Convention.

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LAAZ TIL the Mongolian idiom used when someone sneezes: бурхан оршоо бутын чинээ сахал урга. (Translated as “God bless you and may your moustache grow like brushwood.”)
woP41 TIL That the slot in slot in the back of medicine cabinets in older homes was to dispose of used flat razor blades and fall down into the wall
xErk TIL there is a $5 fine for anyone on the staff at the Top Gun school who quotes the movie
OBxe TIL When Teddy Roosevelt was president, you could just draw big teeth and circular glasses on an envelope and the letter would end up at the White House (Conan’s new interview show…awesome)
OypY TIL that an idea from Donald Duck comic was used to raise a sunken ship, and the prior art from the comic may have been used to deny a patent on the ship raising method