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TIL that in 2014, Dallas Police engaged in a six-hour standoff with an empty apartment

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gMp6D TIL that the first ever manned flight into a hurricane was done in a single engined plane by Joseph Duckworth on a bet in 1943
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7MGL TIL there is an area in Venezuela where lightning strikes 280 to 3,600 times an hour, 300 nights per year. It is called Relámpago del Catatumbo, or “the everlasting storm”.
M75m TIL That due to the cosmological principle, any spot in space and time can be the centre of the universe.