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TIL Los Angeles has a metro system

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loO5 TIL that a man was tried and convicted of raping and murdering a 16-year-old girl in Texas. When DNA analysis was discovered the court of appeals denied him a retrial even though he was not a match.
N7PvP TIL lightning hasn’t brought down a plane since 1967 because modern planes possess a fuselage that acts as a Faraday cage, which is a container that blocks electromagnetic fields. The charge instead runs around the outside of the craft and disperses from the tail.
V9lQ TIL 93% of dog owners in the U.S. say their dog has made them a better person in at least one way, a study found.
6EEY8 TIL that Wensleydale cheese sales were so low in the 1990s, that production might have ceased, until Wallace & Gromit saved the cheese. Creator Nick Park only choose the cheese because of it’s name, and accidentally saved the company.
E1Yao TIL the median age of people who watch cable news is more than 60 years old.