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TIL that Fema sometimes measures disasters impact using a thing called the waffle house index. This is because there are so many of them and they have the unique ability to operate completely off gas for power/heat/cook. So if the waffle house is closed then its tantamount to complete disaster!

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PYavZ TIL that Napoleon IV wanted to fight against Nazis but he was in exile and banned from France. He then joined the Foreign Legion with a false name and when France capitulated, he joined the French Resistance.
4X0aa TIL of the Great Toyota War, which was the last phase of the Chadian–Libyan conflict in 1987, on the Libyan–Chadian border. It takes its name from the vehicles used, the Toyota Hilux and the Toyota Land Cruiser, to provide mobility for the Chadian troops as they fought against the Libyans.
nWey7 TIL in 1922 Deputy Prime Minister to Ireland Kevin O'Higgins ordered the execution of Rory O'Connor, who was the best man at his wedding only one year prior.
Ypb7W TIL Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney was elected with a historic landslide majority in 1984, and a record second majority in 1988. Since 1997, he and his wife reside part of the year in their Palm Beach house and hang out at private billionaires clubs
OG087 TIL of Nakahama Manjirō, a 14-year-old fisherman who was shipwrecked on an island with four friends. They were rescued by an American whaleship, who took them to Honolulu, where his friends stayed. Manjirō continued on to Massachusetts and become the first Japanese person to land on mainland USA.