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TIL Fear of being buried alive in the 19 century was so widespread there was a patent for ‘life indicator coffin’

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jNLaN TIL of the 'Tri-State Tornado', a category F5 tornado that lasted almost 4 hours, caused $2.2 billion dollars in damages, killed 695 people, and carved a path from Missouri through Illinois to Indiana back in 1925.
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