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TIL that a man who was burned by the burning mat at Burning Man tried to sue the event’s organizers, claiming that they should have prevented him from walking into the fire.

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Lk5RZ TIL about Danish artist Thomas Dambo who creates giant wooden sculptures and hides them in the forests of Copenhagen
JYYKm TIL that the Battle of Jemappes happened today: French army beats Holy Roman Empire
MeBra TIL the state of Maryland narrows to a width of less than two miles (3 km) in the Hancock area—the smallest non-vertex border-to-border distance of any U.S. state
grAxD TIL in Satyajit Ray's first film Pather Panchali (1955), after taking first shot of the famous train scene, Ray returned next Sunday to shoot further only to discover that the Kaash flowers had been eaten up by a herd of cattle. He had to wait for the next season of flowers to complete the scene.
Egrg0 Today I learned that 79% of Americans are literate and that 54% of Americans read below a 6th grade level