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

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j6nmp TIL Mount Rushmore was named after Charles E. Rushmore, a New York attorney who visited the Black Hills in 1885. When he asked workers the mountain’s name, they joked it had none and said they’d name it after him. The name stuck, and it became official in 1930.
X0Z4j TIL: In order to perform a Ushi no toki Mairi curse, the practitioner wears white and tall clogs, dons an iron crown with 3 candles, suspends a mirror from their chest, then nails an effigy of her target to a tree between 1-3am. In Japanese law it is a textbook example of "impossibility defense".
rDn4 TIL the cult awareness network is actually owned by the church of scientology
WkwKA TIL that Friedrich Nietzsche's work was manipulated by his sister to support her own antisemitic ideals - these manipulated works were then further abused by the Nazi party
l7VZV TIL Thanks to immunotherapy long-term disease control in metastatic melanoma is now possible, with nearly half of patients surviving for years after treatment, even those with brain metastases. What was once a death sentence, can now be cured.