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Today I learned Hurricane Beryl in 2024 was the earliest category 5 hurricane ever in the Atlantic.

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epWX4 TIL that the men under Union Colonel Dixon Stansbury Miles were so disgusted at his poor defence at Harpers Ferry, that no one wanted to take the mortally wounded commander to the hospital.
XEelE TIL That John Chrysostomos is one of the people responsible for interpreting Sodom as a place of sodomy, instead of just a place of inhospitatality, which was the traditional interpretation before him.
VBJa4 TIL Not every one has two pinkie toe joints. About 44% of people only have 1 joint on their pinkie toe.
nLgB TIL Seth MacFarlane once had to show an early episode of Family Guy to a pair of Rabbis because Fox execs thought it was anti-Semitic. Despite the Rabbi’s approval, it wasn’t broadcast for 3 years after it was completed.
kGdW TIL of the Backfire Effect, in which wrongly held beliefs of people get stronger in the light of contradictory facts and evidence, not the other way around as typically expected.