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TIL that the United States experiences approximately 75 percent of all tornadoes in the world.

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w9EE TIL that while filming The Shining, Shelly Duvall was forced to perform the iconic baseball bat scene 127 times to give the character a more exhausted look. Afterwards, Duvall presented the director Kubrick with clumps of hair that had fallen out due to the extreme stress of filming.
VMwj8 TIL Barron Hilton (of Hilton Hotels) was so embarrassed by his granddaughter Paris being caught driving while intoxicated, he disinherited the whole damned family. The patriarch instead pledged to donate 97% of his estate to charity upon his death.
E1JW TIL before the Nazi armies invaded Paris, the Louvre was emptied and its contents were secretly distributed among wealthy French citizens who hid them in their houses around the country.
8aZv4 TIL that Ortona, Abruzzo, an Italian town south of Rome that's known for its red Montepulciano wine grapes, has a 24/7 fountain that dispenses wine instead of water—and it doesn't cost a cent to drink.
Y7vaA TIL that the Spanish governor in Portugal was thrown out of a window, thus ending Spanish rule in Portugal in 1640.