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TIL weather forecasts are good at predicting temperatures but bad at predicting rain

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LkmQm TIL A Group of Owls Is Called A Parliament
54Dn TIL The Pledge of Allegiance was originally begun with the right hand over the heart, and after reciting “to the Flag,” the arm was to be extended toward the Flag, palm-down. It was changed during WWII as this closely resembled the Nazi salute.
99nD TIL that after Kurt Cobain dropped out of high school, he got a job as a janitor, at the very same high school that he dropped out of.
mBY TIL that James Madison said that “if tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be under the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.”
epEKk TIL: Initially, The Beatles included Ghandi on the cover of Sgt Peppers, but an EMI exec airbrushed him out behind a palm leaf - likely to sell more records in India