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

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ykQV TIL that Howard Hughes special ordered 200 gallons of Baskin-Robbins’ Banana Ripple ice cream, then decided days later he preferred Chocolate Marshmallow. And as of 1996 it was thought that the ice cream still lingered in the Desert Inn’s freezer.
mZOx TIL Zach Galifianakis smoked weed on national television
Eg8xX TIL Canadian undercover officers posed as teen girls to catch a disgraced officer who flashed them while driving around private girls schools in Vancouver
NXGe8 TIL about Don Ritchie, an Australian who intervened and prevented at least 180 suicide attempts at a notable suicide destination called The Gap. He lived nearby and would approach and ask “Can I help you in some way?”
M7GQb TIL the Hoover Institution has a recording thought to be of a secretly bugged meeting of British and American POWs in a German POW camp.