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TIL on the day Judy Garland died, there was a tornado in Kansas

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yn6V TIL it’s faster and more efficient to cook pasta in a frying pan.
oP08 TIL that the most powerful pirate in history was Ching Shih, a Chinese woman that commanded the Red Flag Fleet, which the British, Portuguese and the Qing dynasty were unable to defeat. She also instituted a Pirate Code.
9G9D TIL John Oliver’s comedic commentary has been credited with helping influence US culture by shedding light on issues otherwise ignored. This has been dubbed “The John Oliver effect.
GYN7N TIL 70 percent of the world’s Macadamia Nuts came from one tree in Australia. All of Hawaii’s macadamias share distinctive markers with a tiny wild grouping of trees in Gympie, suggesting that all of the state’s modern crops were likely cloned out of a single Australian tree.
1OQW TIL in 1890’s, George Stratton, an American psychologist, wore inverted lenses to prove the brain adapts, and by the fifth day his brain started turning all the images upside down, so he would see the world normally.