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TIL that the National Weather Service issued a Tornado Warning in 2020 because of a wildfire.

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Wond TIL that the 15 largest commercial ships in the world create as much pollution in a year as every car on the planet
grvGy TIL Fritz Haber invented a process of ammonia synthesis both to save the world from starvation and to serve the German war machine. He never saw the creation of Zyklon B from his process and its use by the Nazis to kill his relatives in the gas chambers.
7raWp TIL The first openly gay doll, Gay Bob, was launched in 1977. He had a pierced ear and his box was shaped like a closet.
7r0wx TIL That Nirvana once purposefully butchered Smells like Teen Spirit while performing live on the British TV show "Top of the Pops". The network forced them to play over a pre recorded tape which the band disliked. They proceeded to jokingly play their instruments and changed the lyrics of the song
OGZE1 TIL about 'Sexual Parasitism' in Anglerfish, where the male dwarf fish bites an adult female, latches on, fusing its tissues to the female host to eventually share one circulatory system. The male eventually withers away, and all that is left is its testes.