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TIL that a tornado appeared out of nowhere in DC after the British set fire to the White House in 1814, putting out the flames and killing more soldiers than the American resistance.

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rRdad TIL of Qian Xuesen, a Chinese rocket scientist and mathematician, who worked on the Manhattan Project during WW2 to help America build the world's first atomic bomb. During the Cold War, he was accused of being a communist and fled America to China, where he helped China build its first atomic bomb.
5v7n TIL Fruity Pebbles are actually grains of white rice that have been cooked, flattened, and puffed back up.
4XJ45 TIL that in 19th Century London, John Chadwick obsessively believed that cholera was caused by 'bad air' and his actions to 'cure' it lead directly to the additional deaths of fourteen thousand Londoners
4Wab TIL - Tim Burton was reportedly uncomfortable with casting Christopher Walken as Max Shreck in Batman Returns. When the casting director asked him why he said, “Because that man scares the hell out of me.”
Y70YW TIL that on the day Michael Jackson died it was (falsely) reported that Jeff Goldblum had fallen off a cliff and died.