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TIL that the Largest Tsunami ever recorded was 1720ft high and only killed two people

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nenEY TIL that when Al Capone discovered that three of his men were conspiring against him, he invited them over for dinner. After a night of drinking, Capone beat the men with a baseball bat and then ordered his bodyguards to shoot them, a scene that was included in the 1987 film The Untouchables.
yonp TIL Walt Disney originally planned EPCOT to be a functioning Utopian city of the future.
Oo9b1 TIL that the american bison's binomial/scientific name is Bison Bison
OG9GR TIL during the period aptly named as "the great dying" 57% of biological families on earth, uncluding 81% of marine life and 70% of terrestrial vertebrate went extinct. The likely cause is volcanic activity turned the oceans toxic and released toxic gas like sulfuric dioxide into the air
mxoNv TIL That acclaimed physicist Stephen Hawkins loved going to strip clubs