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TIL of Burning Log, a Canadian TV show that is nothing but an uninterrupted loop of logs burning in a fire. It only airs around Christmastime and is a critical and ratings success.

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nbY9 TIL that ‘The Fuller Cut’ barbershop in Michigan, offers $2 off the price of a haircut for children, if they read to the barber while receiving the haircut, hoping to increase the literacy rate in the city, especially among the poorer families.
D1j1Y TIL the Star Trek theme tune is not just an instrumental but has lyrics (which were never intended to be recorded) in order to give the writer more money in royalties
eov4 TIL of Medal of Honor recipient, Master Sergeant Roy Benavidez. He had 37 wounds from bullets, bayonets, and shrapnel. Thought to be dead, he spit in the face of a doctor who was zipping him up in a body bag.
px9p TIL there is an ongoing genocide in the country of Burma in which 140,000 native Rohingya people are stripped of citizenship and forced into concentration camps
WkAjA TIL in 1872 a Japanese samurai and politician Shinpei Eto established a wanted photograph distribution system. Its first subject was Shipei Eto himself. The circulation of wanted photographs aided his swift arrest. He was executed at the age of 41