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TIL that the reason there isn’t a Category 6 storm is because there isn’t anything left to destroy after a Category 5.

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Wkm9d TIL of Rhea Clyman, a Jewish Canadian Journalist who travelled to the Soviet Union and made reports on the Siberian labor camps and the Holodomor. This led to her deportation in 1933 after which she reported on Nazi Germany until 1938 when she was forced to flee due to growing anti Semitism.
4X9nb TIL There was a mysterious culture in Eastern Europe between 5,500 to 2,700 BC which constructed sophisticated, organized, densely-populated settlements - only to burn them to the ground every 60-80 years to rebuild the same settlement as before
D1xjP TIL that Nestle Smarties are all the same flavour except the orange one, which is flavoured with orange oil.
d8jeK TIL Barbed wire fences were used for telegraph transmission in rural areas.
kBoe TIL that according to Rotten Tomatoes, the Toy Story trilogy is the most critically acclaimed trilogy of all time.