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TIL that Tampa, Florida has never recorded a single day over 100 degrees fahrenheit

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v1B5L TIL: After Brutus helped kill Caesar, he minted coins celebrating the murder.
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R5dl7 TIL in Taiwan, recipes are also free tickets for a lottery drawing held by the government every 2 months. The grand prize is NT$10 million (over 300,000 USD).
JY7bQ TIL of ‘Shturmovshchina’—a Russian term for working frantically to meet a deadline after having not done anything for a month.
7rjEb TIL in 1986, the rollercoaster Mindbender malfunctioned due to poor design and maintenance, the rear car derailed, throwing four riders off, killing three and injuring a fourth who shattered his lower legs, half his left shoulder and broke his feet, pelvis, lower back and every rib on his left side.