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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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7nPM TIL The car that Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in bore the number plate 11 11 18. This assassination directly lead to the start of the First World War - which ended on 11/11/18.
pZ6G TIL American schoolchildren rank 25th in math and 21st in science out of the top 30 developed countries….but ranked 1st in confidence that they outperformed everyone else.
gM0AL TIL Porsche key fobs are shaped, miniature models of the vehicle on a scale of 1:43.
AePo TIL Harrods department store has a dress code policy. It has turned away people who it believed were not dressed appropriately. These included a soldier in uniform, a Scout troop, a woman with a mohican haircut, a 15 stone woman, and FC Shakhtar Donetsk’s first team for wearing tracksuits.
ODya TIL the Library of Congress has a letter sent by a young Neil deGrasse Tyson to Carl Sagan, thanking Sagan for his generosity when they met at Cornell, and telling of his future career plans in science