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TIL NC banned the use of scientific predictions of sea-level rise in determining coastal policies

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ae59 TIL that to show how Classical Chinese had become an impractical language, linguist Chao Yuen Ren wrote a 92-character poem in which every syllable has the sound “shi”. The poem “Shī Shì shí shī shǐ” translates to “Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den”.
mxRpY TIL About Ned Kelly, An Australian Bandit. In His Last Stand, His Gang Donned Homemade Armor And Battled Police For Hours. The Last Of His Gang Standing, Kelly Walked into The Open, Firing While Bullets Ricocheted Off His Armor. Eventually, A Shotgun Knocked Him Over, Allowing For His Capture
bL57 TIL of the Baader-Meinhof Phenomena which is the illusion in which a word, a name or other thing that has recently come to one’s attention suddenly seems to appear with improbable frequency shortly afterwards
ADjNw TIL the last search and rescue dog to assist after the September 11 terrorist attacks died in 2016 after retiring to be a reading dog
1aZL4 TIL very tall dinosaurs had air sacs in their body, reducing their weight. This is thought to be why and how they could get so tall without collapsing from gravity.