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TIL the word "hurricane" itself comes from the Taino Indigenous Caribbean word hurakán, meaning evil spirits of the wind.

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gMQ64 Today I learned there was a third US political party formed my Teddy Roosevelt called the Progressive Party. It was also known as the “bull moose party”
ANXdx TIL that in order to host the Super Bowl, host cities must provide the NFL exclusive access to three top quality, 18-hole area golf courses (at no cost) so it can host a tournament on Super Bowl weekend
awYoM TIL that birds’ knees don’t bend backwards—we’re just looking at their ankles!
KMyJ TIL Owsley Stanley, the soundguy for the Grateful Dead, was the first person to mass produce LSD, distributing over 1.25 million doses in just two years.
wLEwY TIL that Willmer “Little Axe” Broadnax, a Gospel quartet tenor popular in the 1930s & 40s, was discovered upon his death in 1992 to be a transgender man—something only he and his brother had known.