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TIL ‘Sharknado’, a Syfy original movie, received an 89% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

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arlL TIL that five days before the bombing of Hiroshima, the U.S. Army Air Force dropped one million leaflets over the city and 33 other Japanese cities warning that those cities were going to be destroyed
R7pW9 TIL Aristotle observed that fossils of seashells in rocks resembled those found on beaches. He inferred that the fossils in rocks were formed by organisms, and he reasoned that the positions of land and sea had been changing slowly since ancient times. Leonardo da Vinci agreed with this reasoning.
ANXKl TIL The loudest thing ever shouted was "QUIET" by Annalisa Wray, a teacher, at 121.7 Decibles. The equivalent of a jet engine.
R558l TIL Lord Kitchener, famous for his appearance in the "Your Country Needs You!" recruiting poster, died during WW1 when his ship sank.
6mYY TIL: That 91% of singles in America have tried online dating, and those who get married through online dating do so almost 2 years quicker than their offline counterparts.