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TIL The Communist Party is the second largest political party in the Russian Federation

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4XAew TIL in 2003 the smoke from large bushfires in Canberra, Australia formed a Cumulonimbus Flammagenitus. Essentially the fire created its own supercell storm, complete with lighting and forming an F3-rated fire tornado. The tornado and associated fire killed 4 people and injured 492 others.
oBl1E TIL that Human Evolution is actually accelerating. The rate of evolution is far greater in the last few thousand years than it had been in the six million years since we split from our last common ancestor with present day chimpanzees.
Jvev TIL that in 1943, after a worldwide search, a mouldy cantaloupe in a Peoria, Illinois market was found to contain the best strain of penicillin for mass production
wLXGY TIL That childhood trauma is the most likely culprit of depression rather than a “sponateously malfunctioning brain”, and that being able to discuss the trauma greatly helps in overcoming it or preventing future illness
Z8OAa TIL Sergei Rachmaninoff's greatest hit is 1975's "All By Myself," in which Eric Carmen unknowingly included copyright protected melody structure from Rachmaninoff's 2nd Piano Concerto, thinking it was public domain. It wasn't, having been originally published in 1901.