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TIL Nearly every afternoon from September to March, a thunderstorm named Hector develops over the Tiwi Islands in northern Australia

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VMeXk TIL Mandrake, a root of a plant which sometimes resembles a human. It has long been steeped in the occult and medieval lore. The root was believed to bear hallucinogenic and narcotic properties and used in the treatment of headaches, earaches, gout and insanity to name a few.
8a6JL TIL that when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, Canada declared war on Japan before the United States did.
kOJMd TIL during the exceptionally cold winter of 1795, a French Hussar regiment captured the Dutch fleet on the frozen Zuiderzee, a bay to the northwest of the Netherlands. The French seized 14 warships and 850 guns. This is one of the only times in recorded history where calvary has captured a fleet.
N7LvM TIL That unlike other fish, monkfish is not kosher.
Z8oRQ TIL that there's a Jupiter-like planet where it rains rubies and sapphires