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TIL the deadliest blizzard in history occurred in 1972, in Iran. 4000 people died and over 200 villages were totally wiped out for good.

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yQwwa TIL there is a disease called fatal familial insomnia which completely prevents sleep. You will continue to stay awake until death and there is absolutely no way for you to sleep, even with the strongest medication out there. It can begin subtle but with time it will always end in death.
5Wkn TIL that Festivus is a real parody holiday invented by a man in the 1960’s and celebrated by his family. His son went on to become a screenwriter for Seinfeld and incorporated it into the script, popularizing the holiday.
VBw9k TIL volcanic eruptions are constantly ongoing on Jupiter's moon Io, probably because it is constantly being ripped apart by Jupiter's massive gravity
wLyoo TIL there was a petition to rename and Austrian village named Fucking. Tarsdorf municipality's mayor decided to keep the name as it had existed for 800 years and further stated that "[e]veryone here knows what it means in English, but for us Fucking is Fucking—and it's going to stay Fucking."
xVayo TIL Uruguay's world cup player Luis Suárez has bitten three opponents under high pressure situations. He doesn't know why he does it.