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TIL The U.S. hasn’t been hit by a major hurricane since 2005, the longest ‘hurricane drought’ in recorded history

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E1aW0 TIL that, by the time dinosaurs roamed on Earth, our planet took 23 hours to rotate on its axis.
e00Vg TIL On Nov. 2, 1948 Harry S. Truman won the election for POTUS, but the Chicago Tribune went to press in the early morning saying Dewey had won!
O974 TIL the European Space Agency and EU are currently deploying an alternative to GPS, called “Galileo”. As well as being accurate to 1 meter, it will also have a “Search and Rescue Service”, where distress signals can be picked up from anywhere on Earth. The full system will be completed by 2019.
EgKj7 Today I learned violin strings are made from sheep intestines then wrapped in metal
OKg1 TIL that Budweiser is the best selling beer in only one country: Canada