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TIL: England has more tornadoes per square mile than any other country in the world

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Bg8Xk TIL Michael Crichton, author of Jurassic Park, had an M.D. from Harvard.
ygnp TIL that Roosevelt is on the dime because he helped create March of Dimes, the organization that was originally a campaign to fund polio research.
168W8 TIL that when a painting of the mugshot of killer Myra Hindley was displayed at the Royal Academy of Art in London in 1997, Hindley herself wrote from prison to ask for her portrait to be removed, describing it as a sole disregard for the emotional pain experienced by the families of the victims
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