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TIL LEGO is the world’s number 1 tire manufacturer – 306 million rubber tires a year are produced

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V5P4 TIL The National Weather Service’s chief meteorologist suspected Hurricane Sandy would be a devastating storm 6 days before it struck the east coast, and included his personal phone number in the warning for anyone to call and complain if he was wrong. It was the 2nd costliest storm in US history.
JY5KV TIL: Southern American's stereotype of being lazy, stupid mouth breathers comes from a widespread infection of hook worm.
0971 TIL Charles Darwin in his work “On the Origin of the Species” stated: “I see no good reason why the views given in this volume should shock the religious feelings of any one.”
d8Eld TIL Jazz is the hardest word to guess in hangman, according to math.
wOgP TIL A man foreclosed on a Bank of America branch after his house was wrongly foreclosed. He showed up with moving trucks and the local sheriff and told them to take everything out of the bank.