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TIL the last time there were two named storm systems in the Gulf of Mexico at the same time was June 18, 1959

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ZWBD TIL that in 1942 a Finnish sound engineer secretly recorded 11 minutes of a candid conversation between Adolf Hitler and Finnish Defence Chief Gustaf Mannerheim before being caught by the SS. It is the only known recording of Hitler’s normal speaking voice. (11 min, english translation)
v1108 TIL there is a place in California named "Slab City" where squatters and artists live with no laws, no water, and no electricity. It is called, "The Last Free Place in America".
VMLok TIL of order 44. An executive order by the Governor of Missouri to exterminate the mormon church after they fired upon US militia.
PYo8L TIL Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman to be accepted at a medical school in the US, because the students thought her application was a prank from a rival school and voted to let her attend.
w8PW TIL that 14-year-old Kurt Cobain announced to a schoolmate that he’d be a superstar musician, get rich and famous, kill himself and go out in a blaze of glory like Jimi Hendrix