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TIL that tornadoes are more common in United States than in any other country. The US has over 1,200 a year - four times the number in Europe

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X0vMR TIL on Easter Sunday someone accessed the GardaWorld cash storage facility in Sylmar & stole $30 million in what's considered the largest heist in Los Angeles history. The culprit managed to breach the facility & then disappear with the loot without anyone noticing until the next day.
yvPa TIL that antibiotics are usually not effective for sore throats and common colds as they are caused by viruses rather than bacteria. Taking antibiotics for such illnesses is considered more harmful than beneficial.
nWaRP TIL of Juan Pujol García, a Spanish spy from WWII. After the British Army turned him down, he joined the Nazis, and became a double agent, working for the British. Juan is now one of the few people who have received both an MBE from King George and an Iron Cross from Hitler.
PMWO TIL that in the 1970s, General Mills sued an economics professor for making a parody game called “Anti-Monopoly,” but the suit was thrown out because it was discovered that Monopoly was a ripoff of a board game first developed in 1903 called “The Landlord’s Game.”
D1Zjg TIL of the “Fruit Machine”. In 1961 the Canadian government hired a university professor to develop a machine to identify gay people. It was at the height of the Cold War and homosexuals were thought to be more susceptible to communism.