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TIL on June 3, 1980, seven tornadoes touched down in or near Grand Island, Nebraska

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WkjAA TIL that in the last 6 hours between the signing of the armistice to end WWI and it taking effect, 3000 soldiers were killed.
nN07 TIL Andrew Jackson, in a duel, gave his opponent a free shot. Hit in the chest, he returned fire, killing the man. Later said “if he had shot me through the brain, I should still have killed him.”
nebN9 TIL The US Navy has a Spec Ops team, MK6, comprised of Dolphins and Sea Lions. They're trained to detect enemy divers, attach a device onto their air tank that explodes and alerts personnel of their location.
QWla TIL a married couple in the UK realized they were twins separated at birth
lorAK TIL In 2011 it came to light a forger had fooled one of NYC's most elite art galleries into selling $80M worth of fake art despite the forger misspelling Jackson Pollock in the signature (dropped the "c", whoops!) and using paint that was not available at the time the painting was allegedly painted