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TIL the glass doors on a wood fireplace are supposed to be open when a fire is going

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nWwgG TIL that JFK and Garfield were the only two US presidents to end their terms under the age of 50. Both were assassinated.
LYQ9 TIL about Tilly Smith who, at age 10, helped save her family and hundreds of tourists in Thailand from the 2004 tsunami by recognizing warning signs of a tsunami that she had learned in her geography class two weeks earlier.
R5BLj TIL in some countries in Europe including the UK, they have to pay for a TV license
4Xm05 TIL of Jackie Coogan, a child actor in the silent film era who earned millions of dollars, only to find out in his 20s that his parents spent it all on jewelry and cars. He sued and the litigation resulted in the passage of the Coogan Act, which protects child actors
X06M6 TIL that hominids have probably been seagoing (on rafts) since before humans even existed