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TIL that United States has the highest amount of Nobel Prize winners of any country. Most of the winners are in fields of science, particularly physics

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nWWK9 TiL that upon finishing the sci fi film "Devil Girls From Mars", a then 12 year old Octavia Butler concluded that she could write a better story. Butler went on to win multiple Hugo and Nebula awards and became the first sci-fi writer to receive a MacArthur Fellowship.
dw17 TIL Testimony of war crimes committed by Iraq against Kuwait was an astroturf campaign to sell Operation Desert Storm to the American people, people involved included senators and congressmen who knowingly lied.
gMZM7 TIL Despite the cold climate, bananas have been grown in Iceland since 1941.
PYRAG TIL that a tornado actually starts off in a horizontal position as a rotating mass of air called a wind shear. This is then 'pulled' upright to a vertical position by warm updrafts of air in a thunderstorm. When these spinning columns make contact with the ground a tornado is formed.
v1dG7 TIL Chevy Chase is one of the most hated people in Hollywood. He once accused Terry Sweeny of having AIDS because he was gay, openly mocked Robert Downey Jr's father, told Kevin Smith that he invented everything funny and told a female SNL writer to give him a handjob during a meeting