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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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aYXy TIL Sweden is so good at recycling that it has run out of rubbish and imports 80,000 tons a year from Norway.
ZxOR TIL Shirley Phelps-Roper (Westboro Baptist Church) is banned from entering the UK for “fostering extremism or hatred”.
LpLP TIL Canadians say “sorry” so much that in 2009 the apology act was put in place stating that the word “sorry” is no longer an admission of guilt.
PY4aw TIL that during the 1950s, Louis Farrakhan had a brief career as a calypso singer.
epDVL TIL about lipograms: written work in which a particular letter is intentionally omitted. Ernest Wright wrote his 1939 novel Gadsby without the letter "e," and his book was 50,000 words long.