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TIL Police in Anderson, California issued and trained their officers to use nunchucks

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orko TIL Johnny Depp is blind in one eye
EgY4X TIL that the word "tornado" was banned in 1886 by the U.S. Army Signal Corps when issuing weather forecasts for fear of inducing panic in the public. The ban ended in 1952 when the Weather Bureau issued the first Tornado Watch.
R5961 TIL that when composer Joseph Haydn died his head was stolen for study by people practicing phrenology-the pseudoscientific study of how the shape of ones skull reflects their intellect. His skull was eventual returned and interred with the rest of his body in 1954, 145 years later.
ZpxVY TIL in order to escape the fastest tornado on record, you'd have to break the highway speed limit in 34 states
D1Oov TIL The UK has the 'Whole Life Order' whereby a prisoner who is being sentenced to life imprisonment is ordered to serve that sentence without any possibility of parole. It has been reportedly issued in approximate 100 cases since its introduction in 1983.