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TIL that a straight-line tornado is called a derecho.

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GAoxQ Today I learned about the 20 year old Belgian man who died from eating 5 day old spaghetti.
4XW1a TIL that a Cow-Bison hybrid is called a “beefalo”
b9KE7 TIL that the first public demonstration of a one-way videophone occurred on April 7, 1927, between Herbert Hoover (then U.S. secretary of commerce) in Washington, D.C., and officials of AT&T in New York City. This was followed by the first demonstration of a two-way videophone, on April 9, 1930.
MeDoB TIL a genetic mutation can cause some people to have 4 cones that perceive color as opposed to the standard 3, which means they would be able to see 100 million colors while a normal person sees just 1 million.
xEEB TIL a man shot and kill his son’s kidnapper on camera and was only given 5 months probation. (video)