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

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QJv7X TIL from 1979 to 1992, Soviets drilled a super deep bore (Kola Superdeep Borehole) that reached 40,230 ft, just to see how deep they could drill.
ANOl TIL that Mike Tyson got into his first fight after an older boy had ripped the head off one of Tyson’s pigeons.
vMaj TIL: The opening of the male urethra, the meatus, is a vertical slit in order to force urine to exit in a spiral after having traveled the length of the penis in a vertically compressed tube. This design allows for greater control of the stream and also keeps the end of the urethra clean.
VBXMZ TIL that in 2013 baseball great Mike Piazza appeared in a production of the Miami City Ballet whose school his daughter attended. Piazza said he did this in an attempt to raise the profile of ballet among sports fans.
O6be TIL that the german satire party “DIE PARTEI” received one seat in the European Parliament in the 2014 election. One of their goals is to generate new jobs by reconstructing the Berlin Wall.