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78GQb TIL that the most powerful earthquake ever recorded in the continental US occurred in New Madrid, MO, in 1812. It was so violent that the shaking was felt in New York, made church bells ring in South Carolina, and made part of the Mississippi River run backwards.
4XD75 TIL in April of 1968, Jane Elliot did a racial experiment where she turned her third grade class of students against one another based solely on the color of their eyes.
wLZVJ TIL Paw Paw French is a dialect of French that was widely spoken in Missouri for hundreds of years. Today there are only a few dozen native speakers left.