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TIL: Coffins are hexagonal and Caskets are rectangular.

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rN4j4 TIL the 2013 El Reno tornado was more than 2.5 miles wide and had multiple vortices in it’s interior moving at speeds of 177 mph across the ground. It is the first known tornado to cause the death of storm chasers, tossing their car 600 feet through the air.
kOQJ4 TIL most black olives are just unripe green olives treated with a solution to darken them
QNn16 TIL in the 1950s, the CIA exploited Filipino vampire myths to instill fear in villages, killing a man, marking him with bite wounds, and hanging him upside down. This was part of efforts to help elect Ramon Magsaysay, a U.S. backed president.
VMaLD TIL about Adolph Metzger, a bugler who used his instrument as a weapon until it was battered shapeless in the Fetterman Fight. Metzger was the only soldier whose dead body was not mutilated. Instead the Indians covered him with a buffalo hide. His dented bugle is now displayed in a Wyoming museum.
xVYV5 TIL The Code of Hammurabi, bestowed total jurisdiction over brewing and beer to women, indicated by the word “she” used to describe every tavern owner. Sumerian women didn’t have many opportunities to earn a living, but they were responsible for brewing beer and allowed to open their own taverns.