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TIL that, if it were an independent country, California would have the fifth-largest economy in the world.

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Rp8a TIL that the United States experiences 75% of the worlds known tornadoes
ZWXD TIL Fatso or “Keyboard Cat” died a long, long, long ass time ago; 1987 to be exact.
PDKO TIL that before his death, Phil Hartman had expressed an interest in making a live action film about his popular Simpsons character Troy McClure. Many of The Simpsons production staff expressed enthusiasm for the project and offered to help.
MedYW TIL that in 1945, General George S Patton, upon the liberation of the Buchenwald Concentration Camp in Germany, forced 1,000 local citizens to tour the camp to witness firsthand the atrocities that had taken place within.
00EN TIL Blockbusting, a business practice used by real estate brokers to buy a house in a white neighbourhood, rent it to a black family, and buy the rest of the neighbourhood at a discounted price after urging nervous white families to leave the neighbourhood.