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TIL Tom Cruise's real name is 'Thomas Mapother'

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l7gXA TIL of the 1997Jarrell, Texas "Dead Man Walking" tornado, a slow-moving F5 twister that sat over a subdivision for three full minutes, subjecting it to 260+ mph winds. It erased everything, killed 27 people, plus hundreds of cattle, and blended their remains together unrecognizably.
Z8Nea TIL the famous blue sinkholes in Yucatán, Mexico are left over features from the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs.
JYxvk TIL of the Öland massacre, where an entire village was slaughtered and left where they fell for 1500 years. Into the modern era, children were warned to never play near it and the site lay undisturbed and out in the open
4XPaX TIL of the Sonic Hedgehog Signaling Pathway, which transmits information to embryonic cells required for proper cell differentiation.
xV7P1 TIL Sigmund Freud's books were burned by the Nazis he said, "What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now, they are content with burning my books."