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TIL that Winter Storms in the United States are named solely by the Weather Channel and not recognized by other agencies including the National Weather Service.

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rNEDd TIL when President William McKinley was shot by anarchist Leon Czolgosz, members of the crowd began beating the latter. The President then told the attackers to "go easy on him, boys." McKinley survived initially but died 8 days later. Leon Czolgosz was executed by electrocution a few months later.
JYNXm TIL Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt developed a card-based method for promoting creativity and brainstorming called "Oblique Strategies," which would give generic aphorisms/instructions to apply to any creative process
xv4w TIL that certain medals at the 2014 winter Olympics will contain fragments of the meteorite which hit Russia.
JwKB TIL LEGO is the world’s number 1 tire manufacturer – 306 million rubber tires a year are produced
VBOxQ Today I learned of Herman Perry, a African-American WWII soldier who fled into the jungles of Indian/Burma after killing his CO in 1944. During this time he ended up marrying the chief's daughter of the Naga Tribe that took him in. He was eventually caught and executed in 1945.