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TIL of the 1997Jarrell, Texas "Dead Man Walking" tornado, a slow-moving F5 twister that sat over a subdivision for three full minutes, subjecting it to 260+ mph winds. It erased everything, killed 27 people, plus hundreds of cattle, and blended their remains together unrecognizably.

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PmLJ TIL there’s a hotline filmmakers can call for science advice with the goal of helping filmmakers incorporate accurate science into their films
Qgae TIL That Nicolas Cage did in fact deny that he is a time travelling vampire
LaOp TIL a nurse named Sandra Clarke had to leave a terminally ill patient alone when asked to stay. When she returned, the patient had passed away from multi-organ-failure. No One Dies Alone was then created, a charity where volunteers sit with terminally ill lonely patients. it’s now international.
Y8Md TIL: In Soviet Union during 1991, voting “none of above” led to new elections with new candidates in 200 races. Boris Yeltsin later said the “none of the above” option “helped convince the people they had real power even in a rigged election, and [it] played a role in building true democracy.”
KY9K6 Til that former middleweight world champion, Carlos ‘Escopeta’ Monzon, finished his 14 year career on an 80 fight unbeaten streak spanning 13 years