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TIL hurricanes in Australia were originally named after local politicians a weather man didn’t like

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0wQDA TIL the 2nd deadliest day for law enforcement in the U.S. was a 1917 bomb attack that killed nine Milwaukee police officers. The original target was a local church but a boy discovered the suspicious package and brought it to the police department, where it exploded. (The deadliest day was 9/11.)
VMGEp TIL of Six Californias, a proposed initiative in 2016 to split California into six separate states: Jefferson, North California, Silicon Valley, Central California, West California, and South California. The initiative failed to meet the required signatures to make the ballot.
78Qrr TiL: Emerson Romero Was Pioneer Of Closed Captioning!!!
D1prJ TIL that the high rate of lesbians driving Subarus is not a coincidence, but rather the result of a strategic marketing campaign based around the outdoorsiness of the vehicle brand and the niche target market
D1BAg TIL All border collies can be traced back to one dog, Old Hemp