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TIL that in California, they use prison labor to fight forest fires

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XE9oR TIL about Guangala, a tribe that used children's skulls as helmets for infants used in burial sites
8ykV TIL Sean Penn once tied Madonna to a chair and beat her. After nine hours she escaped and made it to a police station.
4Xww TIL that the United States’ only native parrot species, the Carolina Parakeet, went extinct in 1918 because they were deemed as pests by farmers and as lovely decorations for ladies’ hats.
mkaE TIL that in a brain scan, feelings of being in love and being on cocaine look almost identical.
xRo1 TIL of the Great Comic Strip Switcheroo of ‘97 in which several large comic strips switche creators for a day. It is considered one of the best switcheroos of all time