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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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Y78yA TIL That Nintendo was first and only company Koji Kondo ever applied to.
LQx0d TIL that in 1978, Kim Jong Il abducted the famous South Korean actress Choi Eun-hee and her then ex-husband, director Shin Sang-ok, in order to make North Korean propaganda films. Shin attempted to flee and was imprisoned for 3 years before finally agreeing to shoot the films. They escaped in 1986.
Me4EA TIL In 1967, US president Lyndon Johnson secretly ordered a study that concluded he would die at age 64. He died of a heart attack in 1973 at age 64.
R7beQ TIL a man committed a perfect crime and was caught anyway. While in jail, he investigated how this was possible and discovered a secret new surveillance device the government developed.
5VDp8 TIL about the Manhattan Schist: a 450 million year old piece of bedrock, remnants of the Appalachian Mountains, that exists close to and above the surface of the ground. Something not seen anywhere else in the world, and one of the main reasons it’s possible for Manhattan’s dense skyscrapers