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TIL Groundhogs and Woodchucks are the same animal

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Bg84W TIL The 2011 Smithville, MS EF-5 tornado, one of the strongest ever recorded, threw a semi-truck 300 yds, embedded an rv into the ground 250 yards away, and threw an SUV into the top of a water tower half a mile away before it landed crushed into a ball another quarter mile away.
BgVgb TIL The Persians had ancient refrigerators called "yakhchals" to preserve the ice and keep it cold underground until the summer, the yakhchal also had a ventilation system that allowed the cold air to enter and the warm air to escape, keeping the temperature inside low.
ep4VL TIL: Martin Luther King paid the bill for Julia Roberts’ birth
lwX7 TIL that, in 2009, thousands of women in Kenya went on a seven-day sex strike in protest of political instability. The strike was successful and ended in peaceful talks, because, above everything else, sex matters the most.
LJR9 TIL: After investigating a possible hack into the Verizon infrastructure, they found that one of their developers had outsourced his job to a Chinese development firm. The firm did such an outstanding job that the developer was widely considered the best developer at Verizon.