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TIL a 2005 FX docudrama (“Oil Storm”) portended a major hurricane hitting New Orleans causing citizens to take refugee in the Superdome and a resulting national increase in gas price… A scant three months before Katrina.

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GaYJ TIL Contrary to popular belief wooden cutting boards harbor less bacteria than plastic ones after normal cleaning.
v4ML TIL that ‘meconium’, the first bowel movement of an infant, can be tested to determine if the mother smoke, drank or engaged in drug use during pregnancy. Meconium testings can be used in the US to determine the eligibility of the parents to keep their newborn child.
G5YG TIL that Superman actor Christopher Reeve was interested in Scientology until he was auditing and told them about a “past life” that was really a story from Greek mythology; he was disillusioned that they believed his lie and stopped pursuing Scientology
YdKB TIL James May, formerly of Top Gear, once beat Gordon Ramsay in a cooking contest, while drunk.
JGO1 TIL that Tonga, a nation consisting of over 1200 islands in the Pacific, has never been conquered or colonized ever and is ruled by a King that traces his ancestry back 1000 years.