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TIL the company name evian spelled backwards is naive

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9w5DM TIL about the deadliest hail storm in recorded history. 246 people were killed by hail in Moradabad, India, 1888.
b9k5Z TIL that contrary to the previously held belief that cockroaches only developed a resistance to one class of pesticide after exposure, coakroaches can actually develop a “cross resistance” to multiple types of pesticide simultaneously
N9RJ TIL the US Navy exploded several 500 ton shots of TNT in Hawaii during 1965 to determine the damage caused by nuclear weapons without radiation risks. The craters left behind are inland but connected to the Pacific ocean underground.
loep5 TIL that Latvian folklorist Anna Bērzkalne wrote her 1942 doctoral thesis in English instead of German as a form of non-violent resistance to the Nazi occupation of Latvia during World War II.
WOwY TIL the most dangerous category of the Guinness Book of Records is the Banzai Skydive - a diver throws his parachute at 10,000 ft and attempts to secure it.