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TIL that Tulsa, Oklahoma is located in a Native American nation

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ZpAn4 TIL there's a restaurant in New York that doesn't employ chefs; they employ grandmas. Every day, a different grandma from around the world designs her own menu.
7r6Dx TIL that the strongest recorded hurricane/typhoon/cyclone in history in terms of 1-minute average wind speed, 2015's Hurricane Wilma at 215 mph (345 km/h) in the east Pacific, formed and then dissipated in a span of just 5 days.
Xn9X TIL that Prince used Dave Chappelle’s Prince on his album cover for “Breakfast Can Wait”.
b9vjQ TIL The US government recruited over 1600 Nazi scientists, engineers, and technicians, in what is know as Operation Paperclip, in an effort to win the space race
dJdr TIL in 1954, the US tested their first dry fuel nuclear bomb, “Castle Bravo”. The explosion was 3x larger than expected. The fallout affected a 100 mile radius, and material traveled as far as India and Australia. It is the most significant radioactive contamination ever caused by the US.