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TIL that the one of the strongest tornadoes in history was not in the United States, but in the Holy Roman Empire (modern-day Germany).

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D1V8J TIL that programming and coding uses the same regions of the brain as speech.
6wem TIL the blades in a Rolls Royce jet engine are so technologically advanced and intricately designed that each blade is roughly worth the price of an average family car
R7eLl TIL William Henry Sheppard, one of the first Black American missionaries to Africa, helped to expose King Leopold’s atrocities in the Belgian Congo to the world
X0e6j TIL that scientists in Japan over a decade ago created an odor recorder that could analyze, store, and reproduce smells.
BgRpL TIL that the popular chemical brand WD-40 stands for Water Displacement-40, the 40 referring to the 40th attempt to successfully create a solution that actually worked, and it was originally meant to be specifically for aeronautics.