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TIL that particularly destructive named hurricanes will have their names removed from recurring lists for naming storms

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pYZR8 TIL Jack Ketch, Charles I's executioner, became so notorious for botched executions that his name became a synonym for death and he once wrote an apology letter for beheading someone so poorly.
rN1wy TIL that the first American Artist to cover a Beatles song was Del Shannon with his 1963 cover of "From Me to You". Del Shannon's cover also became the first Lennon–McCartney composition to make the American charts when it entered the Billboard Hot 100 on June 29th, 1963
R5aZ7 TIL that in 2021, a DC court said the FDA didn't have the authority to prevent Judge Rotenberg Educational Center from using electroshock torture against disabled children
JDKj TIL Bill Murray once showed up at a student house party in Scotland. He drank their Vodka out of a coffee cup and did their dishes.
epD6D TIL in 1926 Brazil had a president with name of Washington but it took a coup d’état,putting an end to Milk coffee politics and starting a new era, the Vargas Era in 1930.Washington Luis served as the last president of the First Brazilian Republic.