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TIL In the movie Twister, the Dorothy unit shown in the film was not complete science fiction but based on NOAA's real TOTO unit, and the film props are now displayed with the real device at the National Weather Center.

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JYLml TIL that in 2003 Brandon Vedas live-streamed his own drug overdose & death while people told him to take more on IRC chatroom. One of his last sentences, as he took more, going unconscious and dying, was: "I told u I was hardcore". His mother was in the next room, thinking he was asleep.
P1M9L TIL that foods such as: cheese, wine, chocolate, and others are technically illegal in Florida. This is because they contain the trace amine tyramine which is considered a schedule I hallucinogen. This is despite tyramine not actually having any hallucinogenic effects and being widespread in foods
VMxak TIL the outermost region of the Sun’s atmosphere, consisting of plasma (hot ionized gas), is called the “corona.” It has a temperature of approximately two million kelvins and an extremely low density. The corona continually varies in size and shape as it is affected by the Sun’s magnetic field.
6E4KY TIL if you try to steal the hood ornament from a Rolls Royce made after 2004, it will instantly retreat into the chassis of the car until the owner rights it. These hood ornaments, called "The Spirit of Ecstasy", cost roughly US $4000 to replace.
69yk7 TIL Theodore Roosevelt was shot during a speech and kept talking for 84 minutes. He got shot in the chest, but because he had a thick speech manuscript in his pocket, the bullet was slowed. He refused medical attention, continued his speech, and said, "It takes more than that to kill a bull moose."