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TIL 2005 was statistically one of the worse hurricane season in history recorded with 15 hurricanes and 23 tropical storm causing $150 billion in damage.

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wLdA8 TIL that Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh (and Queen Elizabeth's husband) had three sisters who married men who became Nazis during WWII. So when Philip got married to the future queen two years after the war ended, none of them attended his wedding.
awYYy TIL David Goggins, despite being an obese asthmatic with a learning disability, became the only member in the U.S. Armed Forces to complete SEAL training (including three Hell Weeks), the U.S. Army Ranger School (where he graduated as Honor Man), and Air Force Tactical Air Controller training.
4XDdb TIL: At the end of the Buddy Holly song, "I'm Gonna Love You Too," there's a live cricket chirp that can be heard on the recording. Holly and the group decided to leave it in the song as it was on beat, and his band has only months earlier decided to call themselves The Crickets.
Bg68b TIL - The military–entertainment complex is the cooperation between militaries and entertainment industries to their mutual benefit, especially in such fields as cinema, multimedia, virtual reality, and multisensory extended reality.
ep56J TIL Salvator Mundi (Latin for 'Savior of the World'), by Leonardo da Vinci, the most expensive painting of all-time, was sold for $450m to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. The painting hasn’t been on display since 2017 and since late 2020 it has been in storage in Saudi Arabia.