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TIL that because of the number of low-hanging power lines in San Francisco, the city’s fire department still uses handmade wooden ladders, made by on-staff master ladder makers.

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69oDl TIL there are more moose living in the Canadian territory of Yukon than there are people
awAWM TIL a student tried to write his killer's name in his own blood after he was stabbed 86 times by a love rival he knew through an internet war games site
oBYYA TIL in 1999 that Royal Caribbean was accused of dumping oil and was caught providing falsified documents about it to the US Coast Guard. They then argued they were outside US jurisdiction since they were incorporated in Liberia (their HQ was/is in Miami)
78Enx TIL that "re-elected" Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro worked as a bus driver before joining politics
69PPQ TIL of the life of Ignaz Trebitsch-Lincoln, a Hungarian jew who was sucessively a Protestant missionary, Anglican priest, British Member of Parliament for Darlington, German right-wing politician and spy, Nazi collaborator, Buddhist abbot in China, and self-proclaimed Dalai Lama.