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TIL Hurricane Katrina caused power outages for 4,500 people in Buffalo, NY.

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grKND TIL that even if King Charles III had an older sister, he still would have been first in line to the throne; male-preference primogeniture wasn't changed to absolute primogeniture until the 2011 Perth Agreement.
gMvWy TIL Disney's Epcot Italy imports water from Pennsylvania to use in their pizza because PA water shares much of the same qualities found in Naples and it keeps it as authentic as possible
7rNBZ TIL More people died during the English Civil War as a percentage of the overall population than in world war one.
e0VWn TIL that the world record for most broken bones in a lifetime is held by Evel Knievel at 433 broken bones.
9Y90Q TIL a memorial plaque to rapper Tupac Shakur was added to a bench in the sleepy coastal town of Lancing in the UK. Locals Neil Whitemore and Graham Staines justified the decision by stating “It’s brought people together, like the hip-hop community and the people who like benches”.