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TIL in the famous bath salt cannibalism case, no evidence of bath salts was ever found

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MR8A TIL that Mark Twain was born on the day of the appearance of Halley’s Comet in 1835, and died on the day of its next appearance in 1910
69bll TIL that India is the highest producer of movies in the world followed by Nigeria and US on an annual basis for the last few years.
69P4Y TIL There's An Interactive Map Showing Every Tornado Touchdown In the United States From 1950-2021 And It's Searchable By Address, Rating F0-F5, Fatalities, Etc. 🌪️🌪️🌪️
N7Xb1 Eighty-five years so far. The pitch-drop experiment—really more of a demonstration—began in 1927 when Thomas Parnell, a physics professor at the University of Queensland in Australia, set out to show his students that tar pitch, a derivative of coal so brittle that it can be smashed to pieces with a hammer, is in fact a highly viscous fluid. It flows at room temperature, albeit extremely slowly.
b600 TIL there was a pre-WWII movement called Technocracy, which held that scientists and engineers should take over the government and economy from politicians and economists. The leader of the movement was known as the Great Engineer.