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TIL that May 20, 2023 will mark 10 years since the last F5/EF5 tornado was confirmed in the United States.

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W7JPA TIL that Winnie the Pooh "Poohsticks Bridge" is real, was repaired and sold to the 11th Earl De La Warr, William Sackville, in 2021 for £131,625, but is once again up for sale.
XEgLr TIL that up until 2016, there was a pool in the middle of nowhere out in the Mojave desert that anybody could go to.
6EBL8 TIL Pope Urban VII was the shortest serving Pope in history; living only 12 days after his election. In his short reign, he instituted the world’s first known smoking ban, threatening to excommunicate anyone who "took tobacco in the porchway of or inside a church”. He died of Malaria.
7rP0Z TIL Anita Hill was not the only accuser who was in DC to testify that Clarence Thomas sexually harrassed her. The committee had Angela Wright sit in her lawyer's office in DC for 3 days and never called on her.
5Y7AQ TIL during Hurricane Katrina, hundreds of prisoners were left to die in their cells. They had no food or water for days, as waters rose to their chests. There were no lights and the toilets were backed up. Many were evacuated, but 517 went unaccounted for.