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TIL during the recent LA wildfire in January 2025, a man discovered a touching letter from the 4 firefighters who rescued his house.

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4k6Wg TIL that DMVs in the US are allowed to sell some of your personal information and do. This practice is legal under federal law. For example, Florida’s DMV made $77 million and California’s DMV made $52 million in 2017 through this practice alone.
p88Vp TIL that in 2004, a movie theater was found in the Paris Catacombs, with a fully stocked bar, a number of seats, and movies dating back to the 1950s.
e07rg TIL the world is safer then ever, and there is data to prove it.
7rjPr TIL after executing the royal Romanov family the Cheka gathered up distant relatives and threw them down the same mine shaft they put the royal family. Many people didn't die so they used grenades to finish them off. When that didn't work they put brushwood down the shaft and lit it on fire.
9J6G TIL New York City paid $500 million to settle claims against its police department over just five years