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TIL there is a town in Alaska called Whittier where nearly the entire population lives in one building along with all of the town's public facilities.

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MegL8 TIL during the tornado outbreak of 1974, forecasters in Indiana, frustrated because they could not keep up with all of the simultaneous tornado activity, put the entire state under a blanket tornado warning. This was the only time in U.S. history that an entire state was under a tornado warning.
7rkMP TIL that there's a thing that can happen during rainy winters called "Ghost Apples." where the rain freezes on the rotting apple and then eventually the rotten part falls out leaving the the ice encasement, showing what looks like a "ghost apple"
P1bmg TIL about the Mossdale Caverns tragedy. A party of ten went into it, and four of them left after three hours. When one of the four returned and found the entrance flooded, she alerted rescuers, but the water made entry impossible. Five were found dead the next day and the sixth the day after.
AD1mw TIL Molossia, a micronation located inside of Nevada USA, claims to still be at war with East Germany
nW49 TIL that the “Gish Gallop” is the debating technique of drowning the opponent in such a torrent of half-truths, lies, and straw-man arguments that the opponent cannot possibly answer every falsehood in real time.