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TIL there is a real time model that shows the Earth’s wind patterns

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9wkNr TIL of New Sweden, a Swedish colony along the lower reaches of the Delaware River from 1638 to 1655. The colony was established during the Thirty Years' War when Sweden was a great military power.
8eP5L TIL there is a CITY (was a town) in Texas named “Cut and Shoot”.
N7mJP TIL that France built a fake Paris in WWI to confuse german bombers, which was located North of Real Paris
bYA0 TIL that Django and Broomhilda are supposed to be the great-great-great-great grandparents of John Shaft, from the Shaft movie series
0wNbL TIL that visitors to the Sistine Chapel are barred from taking any photos of the frescoes painted by Michelangelo. This is due to a Japanese company owning the copyright to all of the images within the building, which they won via an auction held to help pay for the paintings' restoration.