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Today I learned that the Jacuzzi (of hot tub fame) name only exists because immigration staff misspelled the name Iacuzzi.

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8e6JZ TIL about "Satan's Storm". In 1960 a rare meteorological event struck a small town in Texas. Around midnight a collapsing thunderstorm pummeled the town with 75+mph gust that were as hot as 140°f (60°c), and it continued for the next four hours.
mxaoO TIL of Moctezuma's headdress, a featherwork crown which tradition holds belonged to Moctezuma II, the Aztec emperor at the time of the Spanish Conquest. It is now in the Museum of Ethnology, Vienna, and is a source of dispute between Austria and Mexico, as no similar pieces remain in Mexico.
jNNLQ TIL: That the song Wagon Wheel that country singer, Darius Rucker, made famous was written by Bob Dylan and Kech Secor of the band Old Crow Medicine Show.
Br9Jb TIL that Logic’s song ‘1800-273-8255’ saved hundreds of lives because it is the number for the suicide prevention hotline, says study. After he performed the song in 2018 at the Grammys, suicide rates among 10-19 year olds dropped by 5.5 percent.
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