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TIL there hasn't been an EF5 tornado since 2013 in the US

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ZpaVB TIL Bush and Reagan argued for open borders with Mexico. Reagan scoffed at the idea of a wall.
4XgyR TIL Kim Kardashian was paid to post a selfie on Instagram and Twitter advertising a pharmaceutical product. Sent to 42 million followers on Instagram and 32 million on Twitter, this illegal advertisement did not contain any risk information or language specifying that it was a paid endorsement.
lonk7 Physicists have confirmed a pear-shaped nucleus, and it could ruin time travel forever.
wLLwM TIL that Madame Tussaud made wax death masks of those executed in the French Revolution including Marie Antoinette. She had been readied for the guillotine herself before being pardoned to make the death masks.
xKb1 TIL naturalist John Muir “kidnapped” Theodore Roosevelt from a party and took him into the wilderness to see the beauty of Yosemite, in turn prompting the U.S. president to double the number of national parks