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9wx5B TIL in 1969, the illegitimate son of comedian Stepin Fetchit, who had met his father for the first time only two years before, went on a shooting rampage on the Pennsylvania Turnpike, injuring 16 and killing 5, including his wife and himself.
gZXX TIL, a 400 year-old Bonsai tree had survived the United States’ atomic bomb on Hiroshima…then was later given to the United States as a national gift.
j6NyN TIL that Alice Munro, co-founder of a bookstore with her then-husband Jim, started writing after reading some of the store's stock and thinking "I can write better books than this." In 2013, she won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
NjxJ TIL that in the 1980s, NOAA actually built and tried to deploy a device similar to ‘Dorthy’ from the movie 'Twister’; its name was TOTO (TOtable Tornado Observatory).
nWVar TIL Mount Everest is named after Sir George Everest, even though he had no connection to the mountain and never saw it. He objected to the name because Hindi speakers found it hard to write and pronounce...