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TIL Alaska is larger than all of Scandinavia

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aX4Z TIL that the first documented fire tornado occurred in Canberra, Australia in 2003. As opposed to a fire whirl (fire sucked up into the air), a fire tornado is a literal tornado made of fire.
x6oo5 TIL: The first city to honor the Twin Towers attacks with a monument was Lisbon
m1NNp TIL Donald Mastick accidentally tasted Plutonium and was banned from lab work. Despite this, he earned a physics PhD, started a highly successful interior landscape company, raised a family, and died of natural causes, all with few micrograms of Plutonium in his body.
p8oLN TIL: There is a published, peer reviewed article on iocaine powder, the famed and fictional poison from The Princess Bride
l7bMG TIL that US American trains are required to have bullet proof glass (specifically up to .22 calibre) on their locomotives