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TIL hurricanes in Australia were originally named after local politicians a weather man didn’t like

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4gKR TIL there is an ISO standard for making tea.
EZA0 TIL skinny jeans can cause nerve damage
xY0k TIL: The 2008 Housing Crisis Displaced More Americans than the 1930’s Dust Bowl
yaEp TIL the German government refuses to recognize Scientology as a religion. The organization has officially been labelled an ‘abusive business masquerading as a religion’.
LkMrQ TIL that the Myers-Brigg Personality Test is characterized as pseudoscience, due to its "consistent problems with repeatability, in addition to problems of whether or not it has exhaustive and mutually exclusive classifications", landing it on the same list as Modern flat Earth beliefs and astrology