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TIL there is a thunderstorm named Hector that appears every 6 months in the same exact spot.

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4kyZb TIL that James Otis Jr. was a key figure in the early American Patriot movement, he influenced both John and Samuel Adams and is credited with the phrase, “Taxation without representation is tyranny.” He was born on February 5, 1725.
WklpA TIL: Some swiss cheese lacks holes because the milk used to make it is too clean. A Swiss agricultural institute discovered that tiny pieces of hay dust are responsible for the holes.
e00Vg TIL On Nov. 2, 1948 Harry S. Truman won the election for POTUS, but the Chicago Tribune went to press in the early morning saying Dewey had won!
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N7kyQ TIL that on May 19th 1989, CBS broke into their primetime programming for over half an hour to broadcast a live dispute between the CBS News team and representatives of the Chinese government. (The government was terminating all foreign broadcasts in a lead up to the Tiananmen Square Massacre.)