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TIL The chief executive of Royal Albert Hall was furious about The Beatles lyric stating, "the wrong-headed assumption that there are four thousand holes in our auditorium threatened to destroy its business overnight."

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W7Gjd TIL about the Night of the Big Wind, a January 6th 1839 storm that was the most severe to hit Ireland in centuries. Over 20% of houses in Dublin were damaged or destroyed, and was so severe that people believed the world was ending
oBvp8 TIL In 1890, a theater enthusiast named Eugene Schieffelin introduced European starlings mentioned in Shakespeare's plays to the American continent. They devoured entire orchards, costing farmers millions each year and now consuming nearly all the eggs of the nearly-extinct eastern bluebird.
rR9Go The National Hurricane Center is predicting storm surges anywhere from two to more than 11 feet high and this terrifying graphic from The Weather Channel shows the power and danger of Hurricane Florence.
epyNb TIL that macadam road is named after its inventor John Loudon McAdam.
16MN4 TIL that, in a bid to raise much needed funds, North Korea issued a set of stamps to commemorate the wedding of Prince Charles and Princess Diana in 1981