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TIL Discovery Channel aired a show in which people wanting to learn more about home security had their houses robbed by the show hosts.

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xDKg TIL in Motorcycle Road Racing (i.e. Isle of Man TT) the paramedics ride superbikes too, following the racers, to be as fast as possible on the crash scene
v604 TIL that Henry Ford astonished the world in 1914 by offering a $5 per day wage ($110 today), which more than doubled the rate of most of his workers.
l778A TIL about Nigel, the “World's loneliest bird' who fell in love with a concrete replica and died beside it.
4kgmb TIL: After the development of the atomic bomb, "Uranium Fever" caused by high demand for radioactive material led approximately ten thousand people to the Southwest U.S. to mine Uranium.
4kg4J TIL the US Forest Service uses military artillery to fight avalanches.