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TIL the last EF5 tornado was more than 11 years ago, a record longest period without any confirmed EF5 tornado

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ZpjbY TIL Mikhail Kalashnikov, creator of the AK-47, regretted its deadly legacy and feared he was responsible for millions of deaths.
m15QE TIL that the first recorded labour strike took place in Ancient Egypt, in 1170 BCE, by tomb workers. After the grain supply was repeatedly late, workers stopped working and demanded prompt pay. Because it was the first of its kind, management did not know how to react, and largely caved to demands.
X0a4D TIL that Helen Sharman, the first British person in space, worked for the confectionery company Mars before being selected to travel to the Mir space station, leading to the press dubbing her "the girl from Mars".
d8ldj TIL as the Ford Kuga's name means "plague" in Serbo-Croatian and Slovenian languages, its sales have suffered in these countries.
KYDQR TIL astronaut John Young risked the U.S space mission Gemini 3 by smuggling a beef sandwich into space which was breaking up and creating crumbs and that could have caused damage to the spacecraft or the equipment.