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TIL a word for wind blowing through the trees is psithurism

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x0oo TIL that in response to the rioting and looting that followed the San Francisco 1906 earthquake, Mayor Eugene Schmitz authorized federal troops and local officers to “kill any and all persons found engaging in Looting or in the Commission of Any Other Crime”
ZkY TIL that in 2011, someone tried to sell a near-perfect fake of the Pontiac ambulance which had transported the body of President John F. Kennedy to his autopsy. Turns out the real one had been crushed in 1986 at the request of the Kennedy family.
YQaP TIL the Canadian $100 banknote featured an Asian woman on the back using a microscope. People complained that it was stereotyping Asians as being good at technology. She was replaced with a Caucasian woman, and then more people complained that Caucasians were being favoured.
mxogv TIL there are 4th, 5th, and 6th degree burns, used primarily in forensics, but they are ignored in first aid classes because if someone has above a 3rd degree burn they are likely dead.
OdL TIL Japan and Kenya have a more favorable opinion of the United States than the United States does