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TIL hurricanes, typhoons and cyclones are the same kind of storm, each name corresponding to a geographic location.

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GAygN TIL the "first complete Bible of any sort to be published in America didn’t come along until 1663. John Eliot’s Algonquin-language translation of the Bible, the so-called “Eliot Indian Bible,” was the first Bible to be published in the Western Hemisphere."
wogkJ TIL that shaving your head doesn't make the hair grow back thicker and darker. Cutting the blunt tip just looks coarser; the follicle’s growth rate and color stay the same.
Vxb0 TIL in Andy Warhol’s diary, he said Danny De Vito is “so cute, we should all marry him.”
l75v7 TIL naked mole rats have a 10x longer lifespan (~30 years) than domestic rats, and carry various cancer-resistant genetic properties.
kJrKB TIL: In 1969 existing tensions boiled over between El Salvador and Honduras following the 1970 FIFA World Cup qualifier. It is now referred to as the “Football War” and resulted in 3,000 losses of life over a 100 hour period.