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TIL that a straight-line tornado is called a derecho.

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vaYK TIL when child actor Jackie Coogan turned 18 he found out all his money ($68 million) had been spent by his mother who argued “No promises were ever made to give Jackie anything. Every dollar a kid earns before he is 21 belongs to his parents.” Coogan’s Bill was passed to protect child actors
kQrE TIL that in the late 1950s, China’s government began a campaign to kill millions of sparrows because they ate crops. As a result, there was a huge increase in crop-eating insects, which led to a severe famine.
aw5p9 TIL Owls make almost no noise from flying, even when tested in a room with multiple microphones
KOnkG TIL on 1989, in California, Wilbur and Mary Ellen Tracy opened the Neo-Pagan "Church Of The Most High Goddess", where Mrs. Tracy practised sacred prostitution with her congregants. Both were convicted for pimping and prostitution
OGlJ4 TIL in order to achieve higher stability and defeat undesired oscillations , the Horten brothers - designers of the UFO-looking WW2 German tailless prototype aircraft the Ho-229 - introduced a twisting design into the wing so that it had inherently different AoA across its chord.