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TIL that there was a Tsunami in 2004 that killed 228,000 people. It's the 10th deadliest natural disaster in known record

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rRoBw TIL of Sonya Golden Hand, a Russian female con artist who committed several carefully planned robberies and stole tens of thousands of rubles. She was eventually captured and exiled to a penal colony. She was moved into solitary confinement after trying to escape the colony dressed as a guard.
pY4jb TIL that the oxygen masks in commercial airliners only lasts 12-20 minutes and the oxygen is made from a chemical reaction that may cause a burning smell in the cabin
jaJN TIL TV mystery series ‘Columbo’ was so popular in Romania that when the show was cancelled the Romanian gov’t feared riots, so they had the US State Dept. ask Peter Falk to record a video message to the Romanian people, which he did by reading it phonetically into the camera
OApg TIL:Nikola Tesla disagreed with the theory of atoms being composed of smaller subatomic particles, stating there was no such thing as an electron creating an electric charge
LkkYm TIL that tea and coffee can inhibit your bodies ability to absorb iron