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TIL that the German battleship Tirpitz's route along Norway can still be traced by trees along the coast that were damaged by artificial fog.

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16nQV TIL during the 2011 Hackleburg tornado, which was a massive, extremely violent, long-tracked EF5 wedge tornado that lasted for 2.5 hours and killed 72 people, a Corvette was thrown 641 feet (195 meters), and another vehicle from a house nearby was never found again. It just completely disappeared.
5M8 TIL that a 2400 year old corpse was so well preserved, that the finders reported it to the police as a murder.
0BZp TIL of the St Scholastica Day riot. In 1355 at Oxford a dispute between two students and a tavern keeper escalated to a two-day riot where 93 people died. The entire incident was over the quality of drinks being served at the tavern
nWNo9 TIL that James Madison had a crystal flute
mkJM TIL Thatcher supposedly threatened to nuke Argentina over the Falklands if the French president didn’t hand over the disabling codes for the French-made Argentinian missiles.