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TIL Hey Arnold is set in the state of Washington.

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XD6X TIL the only person killed by an animal in Yosemite National Park was not killed by a bear, mountain Lion or a wolf but by a deer. They also cause the most injuries.
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m6Ly TIL California’s largest body of water, the Salton Sea, was created by an engineering mistake. Irrigation canals were dug from the Colorado river to the Salton sink. When the river flooded a dyke was breached and the entire Colorado river poured into the sink making the sea.
GAa11 TIL that a cigarette lit in frustration by a Swiss physicist led to the accidental invention of modern smoke detectors.
XErWk TIL about "The Demon Core", a mass of plutonium that was responsible for the death of two scientists on two separate occasions.