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TIL that skateboarding was so uncool that Tony Hawk had to hide his skateboard at school so that he wouldn’t get beat up and bullied.

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woA9J TIL Wagner Dodge escaped the Mann Gulch fire by lighting an "escape fire" in front of him and laying down on the now dead grass so the main fire could not engulf him.
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