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TIL there is a TWISTER MUSEUM!!!

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WknG4 TIL that George Newhall and Tom Yohe, co-creators of the "School House Rock" series of educational short songs, produced a similar series for NBC in 1978 called "The Metric Marvels" to teach kids about the metric system in support of the US' short-lived transition to metric.
YXVP TIL 70% of murders in Detroit go unsolved
neQ7W TIL Agatha Christie once disappeared for 11 Days and no one (including her) apparently knows what happened.
WP1d TIL you’re not supposed to heat up the styrofoam cup of noodles in the microwave when cooking because it releases more of the BPA chemical found in styrofoam.
RLV4 TIL: The vocal effects on Osbourne’s opening line, “I am Iron Man”, were achieved by having him sing from behind a metal fan.