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TIL Most people in Europe do not use air conditioning.

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WKAN TIL: Stephen King donated so much money to help build a baseball field in Maine that the locals affectionately call it “Field of Screams”.
v1LDj TIL that the US is in eternal battle with a flesh eating fly called the Screw Worm. Basically a maggot that burrow into live flesh, head first. There's a worm screw border guard at Panama, having mostly irradicating them in North America. Last US case in 2016. Yes, they will lay their eggs in you.
KOyeR TIL about Anthony Pellicano, a Hollywood fixer recently released after 15yrs in prison for multiple indictments, he walked out to a six-figure trust funded by high level execs and Hollywood stars for his silence while incarcerated.
41bJ TIL that the Gobekli Tepe, which predates Stonehenge by over 6,000 years, is a large monument built in the middle of nowhere. It predates the invention of known tools, cities/communities, and the written word.
XEWAR TIL Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the NBA star, is actually a published novelist and has written about the adventures of Mycroft Holmes, in addition to other works