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TIL of the Eternal Flame Falls, in Chestnut Ridge, NY. A naturally occurring gas seep feeds a flame in the heart of the waterfall

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loon5 TIL that during the Vietnam war 30,000 American draft dodgers fled to Canada, the same number as Canadians that volunteered to fight
dDXMK TIL: Prairie dogs build their burrows with a flat orifice at one end and a mounded one at the other. During a breeze, the different surface geometries create a pressure differential via the Bernoulli effect, forcing air to flow from the flat end to the mounded end, ventilating the burrow.
nbDo TIL In 1918, a black man named Laurence C Jones survived a lynching attempt from a white mob by convincing them of his passion to educate Black kids. The mob ended up collecting money for his cause.
4XW6w TIL When the Japanese surrendered in WW2, they anticipated that widespread violence against Japanese women would occur in Japan. As a precaution the Japanese government set up brothels to curb this.
DQLWp TIL In 1998, business mogul Bill Daniels donated his private mansion, called Cableland, to be used as the official residence of the mayor of Denver. It has never been used in this role.