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TIL humans invented booze before the wheel.

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M7Ej8 TIL about Black Sunday, April 14, 1935, when a massive dust storm hundreds of miles wide and thousands of feet high tore through Oklahoma and Texas. Temperatures dropped 30+ degrees in 2 hours as the storm turned day into night, plunging the Southern Plains into total darkness.
X0BA8 TIL a “Friends” spinoff sequel series “Joey” ran for two seasons from 2004-2006 starring Matt LeBlanc reprising his role as Joey Tribbiani.
vPO7L TIL about the Iowa Cow War, a series of violent disputes over the testing of cows for bovine tuberculosis in 1931 after a radio station spread misinformation saying that the tests gave the cows tuberculosis. It lead to the deployment of 31 Iowa National Guard units to protect the testers.
dD0vd TIL Mark Hamill visited a dying fan and answered every question as Luke Skywalker because the fan couldn't tell reality from fiction anymore.
0weML TIL that in addition to being the NBA's leading scorer with 38,387 points, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is also a professional writer who contributes to Time Magazine, The Washington Post, and has also written books which are New York Times best sellers.