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TIL the deadliest tornado in history happened in Daulatpur and traveled to Saturia, Bangladesh. It's estimated that it killed 1,300 people and injured 12,000.

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BrrkW "They bite and scratch. You can't handle them without gloves and nets."
P1xae TIL that at the time of The Titanic’s sinking, a magazine story about a ship sinking from an iceberg collision in the Atlantic was out in circulation. The author of this story Thornton Jenkins Hains, was writing under a pseudonym after having been disgraced in society for involvement in a murder.
9ej6 TIL America’s last third-party candidate to successfully win the presidency was in 1860. The party was the Republicans, and the President was Abraham Lincoln.
wNgW TIL Freddie Mercury used a piano as a headboard for his bed and taught himself to play the piano backwards so if a song idea popped into his head when lying in bed, he could reach backwards and play it or record it.
rVR0 TIL: Adobe tried to outlaw photoshop as a verb in their TOS preferring: “The image was enhanced using Adobe® Photoshop® software.” instead of “The image was photoshopped.”