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TIL the highest recorded wind speed on earth was 301 MPH during the 1999 Bridge Creek–Moore tornado in Oklahoma. The tornado lasted for 85 minutes and caused $1 billion in damage

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lobN7 TIL the Mastic tree is only found on the island of Chios and has been harvested for 2500 years. It is used for digestive problems, colds, as a breath freshener (chewing gum) and a multitude of other uses. It was threatened by the Chios forest fires in August 2012
mW7P TIL that Norway, Sweden, and Finland together are NOT Scandinavia, but are Fennoscandia; Scandinavia actually comprises Norway, Sweden, and Denmark, NOT Finland
eVgb TIL Joseph ‘LA’ Hayward, The second Grand Wizard of the KKK, was a Homosexual and he and his partner were lynched after he admitted it.
b6m1j TIL about the first black musician invited to the white house. Sugar Chile Robinson.
Bg68b TIL - The military–entertainment complex is the cooperation between militaries and entertainment industries to their mutual benefit, especially in such fields as cinema, multimedia, virtual reality, and multisensory extended reality.