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TIL there is a TWISTER MUSEUM!!!

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R7g6a TIL that there was extensive research into a cigarette that wasn’t as cancerous, but the project was scrapped just before mass production because of threats by another Tobacco company
Me5N0 TIL that Naspers, a South African company that "formed an integral part of the power structure which implemented and maintained apartheid", today has a 31% stake in Tencent, making it Tencent's largest shareholder
e0REg TIL During his life John Quincy Adams was: Ambassador to Prussia, Portugal, The Netherlands, and The United Kingdom, A Senator, Secretary of State, unanimously confirmed to the Supreme Court (declined), President, and finally served 9 terms as a congressman.
v1gnx TIL that a 2014 study conducted by the WIFII determined that roughly 4% of webpages contain a reference to female anatomy
gMQKX TIL that while most of Irish English is rhotic, a majority of Dubliners are either non rhotic or weakly rhotic