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TIL one member of Congress told a NOAA administrator ‘Dr, I don’t need your weather satellites, I have the Weather Channel,’“

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8egM4 TIL about “Riot Dogs,” stray dogs that have become symbols of resistance by accompanying protesters during demonstrations, notably in Greece and Chile, and more recently observed in Georgia.
9GLG TIL Richard Feynman’s dying last words were “I’d hate to die twice. It’s so boring.”
Drkj TIL 1.2 million golden orb spiders were individually collected to weave the largest piece of golden spider silk cloth in the world
XEGd6 TIL that bicameralism - the idea that humans once had two independent ‘entities’ in the brain - theorises that ‘gods’ were just voices heard by the ancient human, and religious rituals were just an attempt to hear the ‘gods’ again once modern consciousness evolved.
KYmbw TIL of Cockney rhyming slang, a form of word construction where words are matched with rhyming pairs and then the rhyming word dropped to create synonym for the original word. So ‘fart’ rhymes with ‘raspberry tart’, which becomes just ‘raspberry’ as in ‘blow a raspberry’