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

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loQYN TIL Gordie Howe played 32 seasons of professional hockey in a career that spanned 5 decades
O0lY TIL “Slang” is slang for short language
roEd TIL that a DNA study shows that the entire indigenous population in the New World before 1492 might have been descendants of only 70 people who crossed the Beringia before the Ice Age ended
N7VlQ TIL Fresh snow absorbs sound, lowering ambient noise over a landscape because the trapped air between snowflakes attenuates vibration. That´s why it gets so quite when it snows.
Y7PnG TIL The former Confederate President Jefferson Davis met a crowd of 7,000 cheering people when he came to Montreal, Canada. Montreal had been a safe haven for Confederates during the Civil War and some Canadians had supported the Confederacy out of fear the Union might invade Canada.