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TIL In some places the fire department will send you a bill after responding to an emergency call.

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XoyR TIL in the 1920s pedestrian deaths were considered public tragedies with monuments built for killed children and their mothers given honorary emblems. Then the automotive industry created the term ‘jaywalker’ to shift the blame onto the victims and ridicule them.
pYm0e TIL that the Epic Sax Guy, known for his performance at Eurovision 2010, returned to Eurovision in 2017 and he and his band finished 3rd
NwjM TIL Steve of Blue’s Clues interrupted his date with a Playboy model to crash a little kid’s Blue’s Clues birthday party.
P10PE TIL roughly 115 million years ago in the time of dinosaurs, a little 5cm mushroom from Gondwana fell in a river, journeyed to a highly saline lagoon, sank down, down, thru the water. Was covered in layer upon layer of fine sediment. Becoming Gondwanagaricites magnificus, the oldest fossil mushroom
kdYW TIL that in each new commercial, the character “Mayhem” from the Allstate Insurance Agency advertisements sports all of the damage and injuries sustained in the previous ones