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TIL That Alabama despite being outside tornado alley. Has the highest number of fatalities from tornadoes since 1991.

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0w6lA TIL, despite posing as a neutral country, Switzerland helped US and German intelligence services in gathering classified communications by selling rigged encoding devices to more than 120 governments.
wV4o TIL there is a Chinese theme park that simulates an invasion by Japan
nWXlP TIL that the UK Tax code has over 10 million words and is about 12 times the length of the Complete Works of Shakespeare (880,000 words) or nine times the length of all the Harry Potter books combined (1.1 million words).
m6Bx TIL of Kalief Browder, arrested in the spring of 2010, at age sixteen, for a robbery he insisted he had not committed, who spent 3 years at the Rikers Island prison without being convicted of a crime (2 of which was in solitary) and without seeing a trial. He committed suicide after his release.
rREM TIL that in Cali, Columbia, when a woman is going to have sex with her husband for the first time, her mother must be present to witness the act.