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TIL Bangladesh has the record for deadliest tropical storm in recorded history with 300,000 - 500,000 fatalities.

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ONde TIL Avery Island, home of the Tabasco company, is also home to about half of the company’s 200 employees. Many of them are descendants of employees who worked there more than 100 years ago.
16JJ7 TIL about Marshall Applewhite, the leader of the Heaven's Gate cult, who falsely believed, along with his followers, that a spacecraft was located behind the Hale-Bopp Comet when it passed by Earth in 1997.
6E7NQ TIL due to high ruble inflation during the fall of the USSR, parody dollar bills dropped by AC/DC during their concert in Moscow were used in monetary transactions and considered more valuable than rubles.
p8Wwp TIL Lidl The German supermarket chain has been involved in over 20 controversies, such as putting additives in meat to avoid salmonella testing, unauthorized surveillance of its employees, as well as being awarded with The Big Brother award for acting almost like slave masters towards its employees.
P4Ve TIL that there is only one city in Canada’s Yukon Territory.