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

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NAa1 TIL during the Chernobyl Disaster, Aleksandr Lelechenko saved his colleagues from radiation exposure by walking through radioactive water three times in place of his younger colleagues. He died less than 2 weeks after the disaster.
dD7Wj TIL of the Tahitian Dog, an extinct dog breed native to Tahiti that were specifically bred for human consumption. They were fed a completely vegetarian diet and were notably served by locals to early Western explorers to the area.
R77x4 TIL Europeans evolved white skin in the last 8,000 years.
b9040 TIL that Gwen Stefani discovered her husband, Gavin Rossdale, was having an affair with their nanny after explicit photos and messages popped up on the family iPad. It was signed into his iCloud account.
VBEEm TIL That a Quantum machine performed a very specialized computation in 200 seconds that would taken the world’s fastest supercomputer 10,000 years to solve.