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Today I learned that, while Katrina was the most destructive hurricane of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season, the strongest hurricane of that season was Wilma.

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owxR TIL that Andrew Wakefield, a former British doctor known for his fraudulent claim that vaccines cause autism, bribed small children for samples of their blood. This was done at his son’s birthday party without consent from the children’s parents.
Egbeo TIL in 2004, during an interview with Stephen Hawking, a camera operator accidentally pulled one of the plugs causing an alarm and Hawking to slump forward. They thought this act had killed him only to find him laughing at his own jokes, The alarm was from his computer losing power
grVg9 TIL that when America joined WW1 they set upon purging their language of German words, Sauerkraut became “liberty cabbage,” Hamburger was rechristened “liberty steak” and German measles became "liberty measles."
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