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TIL 2015's Hurricane Patricia was the most intense hurricane on record in terms of wind speed (over 300km/h)

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NgVM TIL the actress who played Luna Lovegood in the Harry Potter movies overcame anorexia, with encouragement from J.K. Rowling, in order to act
dD008 TIL Puck, a male budgie, holds the world record for the largest vocabulary of any bird, at 1,728 words
GVO7 TIL a month before FDR’s taking of office, a mentally ill man attempted to assassinate Roosevelt, instead killing Anton Cermak, the Mayor of Chicago, and wounding four others. On his ride to the hospital, Cermak allegedly said to FDR, “I’m glad it was me instead of you.”
9wkLr TIL one of the holiest sites in Shinto, the Ise Grand Shrine in Japan is rebuilt completely using traditional materials and methods every 20 years, costing ~500 million USD every time. This includes everything inside the complex except the Sacred Mirror. The next scheduled rebuilding is in 2033.
vPw0r TIL Max Planck, the father of quantum theory, considered his quantum hypothesis just a mathematical trick to get the right answer rather than a sizable discovery until Einstein interpreted his hypothesis realistically and used it to explain physical phenomena.