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TIL in order to escape the fastest tornado on record, you'd have to break the highway speed limit in 34 states

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1aek4 TIL that in 1688 false reports of Irish soldiers burning and massacring English towns prompted a mass panic, with thousands of people arming themselves and preparing to resist non-existent groups of marauding Irishmen.
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