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TIL that Mikhail Gorbachev, former premier of the Soviet Union, starred in a Pizza Hut commercial

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lo407 TIL the small town of Tanner, Alabama has the distinction of being hit by two F5 tornadoes within a 30 minutes timeframe. On the night of April 3, 1974, rescuers in Tanner were busy searching for victims of the first twister when they were surprised by a second which wiped out the rest of the town
R7YOQ TIL that even though they existed for about 165 million years, only about 700 species of dinosaur have been discovered to date.
Y7PkZ TIL that Indiana Jones was inspired by the Italian Giovanni Battista Balzoni, a 2 meters tall strong-man, idraulic engeneer, explorer, pioneer egittologist and archeologist, and last but not least he had the title of "Templar Knight" given to him by the british masonry
jrmQ TIL that there is a “zip bomb” that expands to 107000000 times its original size when unzipped and can be used to bypass antivirus software.
ZpPOB TIL that the growing difference in car sizes in the USA means that as many as 25% of deaths would be prevented if everyone drove the same type of car — or 9,300 people/year