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TIL that a fire whirl, also known as a fire tornado, forms when intense heat and turbulent winds create whirling eddies of air. These vortexes, often visible through smoke, can pull in debris and combustible gases, turning into a fiery whirlwind.

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DNdg TIL Scotch tape has an unusual property. When placed in a vacuum chamber, unpeeling a length of tape from the roll will produce an enormous amount of X-ray radiation. The reason why it does this isn’t well understood.
JMlV TIL that one of Jeffrey Dahmer’s victims managed to temporarily escape. He was found naked, drugged and bleeding from his rectum on a street corner. Dahmer convinced police that the boy was his boyfriend and that they had had an argument. The boy was returned to Dhamer and was murdered that night.
v18X4 TIL In 1970, the Oregon Highway Division consulted with the US Navy and decided the best way to dispose of a whale carcass was to blow it up with a 1/2 ton of dynamite. The explosion caused blubber to rain down on spectators for over a 1/4 of a mile. A large chunk demolished a car.
XERvX TIL the expression “How do you like them apples” supposedly originated during the first World War, when the Allies’ anti-tank grenade was colloquially called a “toffee apple” because of its bulb-like appearance on a stick. The phrase was a taunt against the enemy.
8exAZ TIL Kermit and Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (sons of 26th US President Teddy Roosevelt), became the first North Americans to shoot a panda, on an expedition funded by the (Chicago) Field Museum of Natural History in the 1920s.