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TIL of The Waffle House Index, An Informal Scale Used By The United States Government To Determine Severity of Storms Based on Opening/Closing of Waffle Houses

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0pZ5 TIL that Crossfire on CNN was cancelled shortly after Jon Stewart exposed them when he was invited as a guest.
Vxym TIL 93% of Indians work in informal, off-the-books jobs, and get paid in cash.
4EZJ TIL in 1982 a Bolivian Drug smuggler’s son was busted in the US. The drug lord sent a letter to Ronald Reagan, proposing that in exchange for his son’s liberty he would pay off Bolivia’s entire foreign debt ($3.8 billion).
gM7wW TIL Freeman Freeman Dyson was incapable of speaking a dull sentence. For more than 60 years, he was one of the world’s most accomplished living mathematical physicists.By the time he was 29, he had been elected Fellow of the Royal Society.
LJvZ TIL JFK carried one of his injured crew members through 4 miles in water to a small island after a Japanese ship attacked the vessel he was commanding.