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TIL that Mozilla is a non-profit community which develops free software in order to advance the goals of the Open Web

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ADP5a TIL To punish and deter illegal tree-cutting around Christmas time, some cities and universities spray trees with fox urine. It freezes on the trees and is odorless outside, but the smell becomes "eye-watering" and irremovable once brought inside.
n9Mo TIL there was a movement in the early 1900s that wanted to replace all politicians and business persons with scientists and engineers.
Wkb54 TIL that the city of Pittsburgh, PA, dumps raw, untreated sewag into the Ohio river.
aw8A0 TIL that as of October 2017, John Tyler the 10th president of the U.S. who was born in 1790, has two living grandchildren
pZKQ TIL Stephen King wrote the book Misery as a fuck you to his fans who complained about The Eyes of the Dragon, which was written for his children, not being a horror book.