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TIL Sunoco has exclusive deals on gas station at nearly every rest stop on the major turnpikes in the Northeast

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ep7BJ TIL about Georgia “Tiny” Broadwick, the first woman to parachute from an airplane and the first person to manually deploy a parachute after a malfunction.
D1EZV TIL Two homosexual lovers, Harmodius and Aristogeiton, assassinated the king of Athens, Hipparchus, and triggered events that would usher in democracy. They became known as the Tyrannicides, the preeminent symbol of democracy to ancient Athenians.
p8rLA TIL about Richard Francis Burton, a British "explorer, geographer, translator, writer, soldier, orientalist, cartographer, ethnologist, spy, linguist, poet, fencer, and diplomat." He spoke 29 languages, translated the Kama Sutra, and shocked Victorian England with his essays about homosexuality.
9wyQr TIL that on October 8, 1871, three of the most devastating fires in world history-the Great Chicago Fire (IL), the Peshtigo Fire(Wl), and the Great Michigan Fire(MI)-broke out simultaneously, causing massive destruction.
orgR TIL that electricity prices can drop below zero in Europe