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TIL it's been over 10 years since the last EF5 tornado

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D197P TIL Researchers Turn Spinach Leaves Into Beating Heart Tissues
BgWBW TIL that in 1977, European TV airwaves were taken over by an “alien” force, known as Vrillon, of the Ashtar Galactic Command, which delivered a psychedelic message of inner truth and peace. The incident has never been explained.
e0Vkn TIL: A submarine ran out of fuel about 100 miles from hawaii while searching for a lost tug. Sub R14 had empty reserve tanks, no radio communications and a week's worth of food. Crew rigged up blankets and mattress covers as sails. It sailed back to Hawaii over 5 days.
E1Py7 TIL a 38 year old woman named Joyce Vincent died in her London flat watching TV, and her body lay undisturbed until almost 3 years later when city officials came to repossess the apartment due to unpaid rent.
6EPMZ TIL of William James Sidis, a child prodigy who able to read the New York Times by the age of two, got into Harvard aged 12, and had an IQ of 250-300. He lived his adult live in relative seclusion and died (a virgin) of a cerebral hemorrhage, aged 46.