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TIL Sesame Street has an Incarceration Tool Kit which assists parents and family with explaining prison to children

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v15V7 TIL the hottest known chemical flame is produced by burning dicyanoacetylene with ozone; at 6,100 K (5,827 C, 10,520 F), it is hotter than the surface of the Sun (5,778 K).
P1jyO TIL "Hunted down", Soungarden's first single released by sub pop in 1987, was used as sub pop's "hold up" tune. People from major labels who would call sub pop would listen to this song while they were put on hold and eventualy began to inquire about the band. This how soundgarden signed with A&M
4Bob TIL: Genghis Kahn is considered the greenest invader in history, as his murderous conquests killed so many people once cultivated lands returned to forest.
W9QB TIL: During a US government shutdown Congress continues to be paid because their pay cannot be altered except by direct law
BrYGx TIL In 2017, Tesla’s “Mothership” network was hacked by a white hat. The vulnerability was proven to the Tesla head of cyber security by summoning a nearby Tesla while he was on the phone with the hacker. The hacker was paid $50k as bug bounty reward.