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TIL We are currently amidst the longest gap between EF5 tornadoes in history

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neLAd TIL In 2005 Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili fired all of the traffic police in his country, cutting 25,000 to 30,000 police from the payroll to fight corruption. He also increased the minimum weekly salary from $30-$40 to around $400 for the new officers.
KYZaJ TIL that the mother of Lee Harvey Oswald would sometimes go to Dealey Plaza and sell her autograph for five dollars
X0LLk TIL about Casu Martzu (literally "rotten cheese), a Sardinian cheese filled with living maggots. It is banned in the EU but, somehow, a black market for the product exists.
6woW TIL that Kesha, when auditioning for record labels, presented two demos: a “gorgeously sung, self-penned country ballad” and a “gobsmackingly awful trip-hop track”, allowing the label to decide which sound she should use as an artist.
E1K17 TIL about "lithopedions", abdominal pregnancies which die and turn to stone