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TIL That Typhoon Tip was the largest most intense storm ever recorded, with winds 190 mph and size of 1380 miles wide in the south pacific, north of the Solomon Islands in 1979. Hurricane Patricia (2015) had the highest winds at 215 mph but was smaller in size and didn't last as long.

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16r0O TIL Gaston is an original character created for Disney’s Beauty and the Beast (1991) he was inspired of screenwritter Linda Woolverton's ex-boyfriend.
nWNZ7 TIL of Ada Blackjack, an indigenous woman sent on an expedition with 4 men to an Arctic island in 1921, within two years she was the sole survivor after facing -50 degree weather, being stalked and hunted by polar bears, and learning to hunt and trap despite no previous knowledge
D1KxV TIL in 1974, a couple disappeared along with their yacht from the uninhabited Palmyra Atoll while vacationing. Theyd feuded with a man on the island, whose boat was not seaworthy and was out of supplies. 7 years later, the wife's body washed ashore Palmyra, and the man was convicted of her murder.
E1BVW It’s not enough to be a mammal who lays eggs, sports a duck-like bill and webbed feet, hunts using electroreception, and wields venomous spurs. The platypus also glows green under ultraviolet light.
v1gRK TIL that Emily Davison, a brutish suffragette, stepped in front of the King’s horse at the 1913 Epson Derby and was killed. This shows that protestors have always stood in high traffic areas. There’s a video of it too. Emily Davison | British activist