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TIL Johnny Cash accidentally started a wildfire when he let his pickup overheat in a CA forest. When asked why he did it, he responded “I didn’t do it, my truck did, and it’s dead, so you can’t question it.”

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woO4P TIL How Tammany Hall got its name. Tamanend (c. 1625–c. 1701) was the Chief of Chiefs of the Lenni-Lenape nation in the Delaware Valley & he signed the Peace Treaty with William Penn. He became known as Tammany.
oMmK TIL George R. R. Martin, writer of ASOIAF (Game of Thrones) refered to Breaking Bad as “Amazing” and noted that “Walter White is a bigger monster than anyone in Westeros”, then said it has influenced him to make an even worse character in future books to “fix this”.
9wP4m TIL Cobalt is named after kobolds (tricksy, sometimes malevolent spirits): the ore was called goblin/kobold ore due to giving off poisonous arsenic fumes when smelted.
D1aev TIL: Continental Cablevision broadcasted a T-shirt offer only to viewers who were obtaining the pay-per-view signal illegally. This was done by encoding the signal in a way only illegal decoders could decode. Those who responded were caught stealing cable.
JRM8 TIL there are an indigenous people of Japan who traditionally have giant beards.