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TIL that the village of Badbea in Scotland was so windy children and animals had to be tied to posts or rocks to stop them being blown away.

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JAkQ TIL that 300,000 Chinese were killed by the Japanese during the Rape of Nanking, which is 80,000 more deaths than the American bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
ydrX TIL that the American Chestnut is not entirely extinct. A few dozen survived in Appalachia and are now the species is being revived via a blight resistant hybrid.
B0RL TIL That at one point in the 90’s, 50% of all CD’s produced worldwide were for AOL.
oBZmY You obviously can’t see it when you gaze up at the night sky, but Earth has a whole lot of junk floating around in orbit. There are all kinds of reasons why debris ends up orbiting Earth and many of the objects are discarded pieces of other spacecraft or long-dead satellites which have no use to anyone. Sometimes these objects crash into each other and create even more, smaller pieces of space junk which can damage active satellites and even pose a danger to astronauts.
vPPe7 TIL that Gravitational Wave detectors are so precise that they could detect a human hair's width worth change in length between the distance of Sun and Proxima Centauri, which is about 4.24 light-years!