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TIL of the municipality of Aristotelis in Central Macedonia is named after Aristotle who was born within it's borders.

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X05W6 TIL that visitors to the Grand Canyon National Parks Museum were exposed to unsafe levels of radiation for nearly two decades due to uranium ore being improperly stored in 5-gallon paint buckets next to a taxidermy exhibit
loeP1 TIL that a straight-line tornado is called a derecho.
YpZZZ TIL that a "20% chance of rain" can mean that there is a 20% chance that rain will occur in a given area, or that there is a 100% chance that rain will occur in 20% of a given area, or anything in between.
aGEA TIL in response to a Buenos Aires audience behaving terribly toward an all-female opening act, Nirvana decided to play a purposely-awful set including many unpopular songs. Cobain also started two songs with the riff from “Smells Like Teen Spirit” before stopping and playing something else.
kOEgg TIL Cards Against Humanity was initially named 'Cardenfreude', a pun on 'Schadenfreude', which is the experience of joy that comes from the humiliation of someone else.