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TIL Windsocks are calibrated to visually show wind speed as well as wind direction. They are designed such that each inflated red/white stripe indicates a 3 knot increase in wind speed to a maximum of 15 knots.

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6EYOW TIL About the Tanuki, a fox-like animal in traditional Japanese folklore with giant magical testicles
BgQ8d TIL that three dogs survived the sinking of the Titanic
E1JG7 TIL that SNL’s Vanessa Bayer was so sick as a child that she and her family got sent to Hawaii by the Make-A-Wish Foundation
W7GWN TIL that on June 15, 2018, Stephen Hawking’s ashes were interred in Westminster Abbey between Isaac Newton and Charles Darwin. During the ceremony, the European Space Agency honored him by beaming a recording of his voice toward the nearest known black hole, which will take 3,500 years to arrive.
LkBoP TIL that tens to hundreds of thousands of animals are being slaughtered in Gadhimai festival, known as world's largest animal sacrifice ritual, in Nepal despite ban from the authorities and protests from animal right activists. The scale of the slaughter, however, has decreased sharply over time.