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TIL less than a month after the first traffic light went operational, it exploded and killed the unfortunate traffic cop who was operating it.

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QaJa TIL that actor Chris Pratt used to live on a beach in Hawaii where he “camped, smoked a bunch of weed, and drank and worked just enough to cover gas and food and fishing supplies.”
b6MxZ TIL of Robinson Risner, who, during the Korean war, has used his own plane to intercept a friendly running out of fuel & hydraulic oil after taking damage and used the plane through a careful collission to push/lift his comrade's into safety
78RRO TIL that sufferers of Carbon Dioxide build-up will experience the follow symptoms: Breathlessness, diziness, confusion and disorientation, headaches, muscle twitching and hand flapping, panic, hyperventilation, convulsions, unconsciousness, and finally, death.
b9m1p TIL The founder of Alibaba, Jack Ma, bought 28,000 acres of U.S. wilderness to stop the logging operations and preserve the country.
4XNdo TIL Tom Hanks is a distant cousin to Nancy Hanks Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln’s mother. They are third cousins, 4 times removed.