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TIL hurricane names are established years in advance, and 2019's list includes a Karen

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l7DvV TIL- That a nuclear test, known as Taiga, part of the Soviet peaceful nuclear explosions program, was intended to demonstrate the feasibility of using nuclear explosions for canal construction.
b6gv7 TIL that Gretchen Weiners' "We should totally just STAB CEASAR!" monologue from "Mean Girls" is just a re-working of Cassius' lines from the original play. Act 1, Scene 2, lines 135-161
j6KQE TIL The 2 hour long This is It concert film was selected from more than 100 hours of rehearsal footage of Michael Jackson in preparation for his 2009 comeback concert series that never happened. It opened with simultaneous premieres in 99 countries, with the mood both sad and celebratory
OoK6X TIL following difficulties with understanding regional accents and dialects, in 2010 a translator firm started actively looking for interpreters who know the Scouse and Geordie variations of English.
oRlAR TIL, the Pan-European Picnic was a peaceful demonstration in 1989 where the border between Austria and Hungary was open for 3 hours and It was the largest refugee movement since the Berlin Wall was built. It started the chain reaction of the Warsaw Pact dissolving and the end of the Cold War.