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TIL that commercial airline pilots help make weather forecasts more accurate

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6EaVX TIL that Saturn's moon Titan is the only moon known to have a dense atmosphere and the only known moon or planet other than Earth on which clear evidence of stable water-like liquids has been found
B0Dk TIL that at least two people died from the “Ice Bucket Challenge”.
8ev7G TIL: the FBI developed and sold a "security enhanced" android OS that was actually a honeypot leading to more than 800 arrests
JYNg4 TIL that the term "Going Postal" originated in the USA in 1990s following a several incidents from 1986 onward, in which individuals working for the United States Postal Service workers shot and killed fellow workers and members of the public.
PYxle TIL that the frontal lobes atrophy as we age. This doesn’t hurt intelligence, but it is responsible for inhibiting inappropriate thoughts. This is why adults have greater difficulty in thinking and start voicing ideas they would have previously suppressed.