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TIL that in Hawaii in 2018 it took over 38 minutes for an alert to be sent out clarifying that an initial alert sent to individuals in Hawaii was a mistake and there was no imminent missile threat inbound

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jNLaN TIL of the 'Tri-State Tornado', a category F5 tornado that lasted almost 4 hours, caused $2.2 billion dollars in damages, killed 695 people, and carved a path from Missouri through Illinois to Indiana back in 1925.
kO17 TIL Heineken bottles used to be shaped like bricks so you could build houses out of them.
4A0g TIL: “Dr” Martin Luther King plagiarized his PhD thesis
KR4Q TIL James Brown was mummified after death and still resides at his daughters home.
yVl6V TIL that when Larry Ellison divorced his wife Nancy in 1978, she gave up any claim on his new company for $500. That company, Oracle (the database company), made Ellison the world's eighth-richest person ($130 billion as of today).