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TIL fire tornados are a thing. Spawned by wildfires and sometimes volcanos, these fiery vortices can uproot trees with winds over of 143 mph (230 km/h).

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VMvJm TIL the only full copy of Game 7 of the 1960 World Series (featuring Bill Mazeroski's famous walk-off home run) is from a recording on Bing Crosby's TV. Crosby co-owned the Pittsburgh Pirates and believed he was a jinx, so he hired a company to record the game on his TV while he listened from Paris.
OGBOg TIL When a man in New York needed a heart transplant from a donor in Oklahoma, the hospital reached out to the US Air Force to help with transportation. The donor heart was transported across the country in two hours on an F-111 fighter jet. The operation was a complete success.
7rGBZ TIL when Jackie Chan was working as a nightclub bouncer, he spent two days after a fight trying to push his bone back into his fist. He later found that it wasn’t his bone, it was in fact the other guy’s tooth.
N76wP TIL that Heat Lightning isn’t an actual type of lightning. It’s the reflection of lightning on clouds from a thunderstorm so distant (and obscured by hills, mountains, curvature of the Earth, etc.) that we can no longer hear the accompanying sound.
PYp7g TIL during a drill in 1943, the USS William D. Porter accidentally fired a torpedo at the USS Iowa which was carrying US President Franklin D. Roosevelt at the time. The entire crew was rumored to have been arrested when they returned to shore.